Council Preview: Boulet aims to shake up parish emergency preparedness
Mayor-President Monique Blanco Boulet is looking to shake up the parish’s emergency preparedness office.
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Vermilion River
Council Preview: Panhandling and spoil banks funds top City’s to-do list
Lafayette’s City Council will talk about local panhandling and consider giving up on $1.5 million from the state for the Vermilion River spoil banks removal.
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Council Preview: Spoil banks settlement and new money for debris drop off
Lafayette’s City Council will vote on buying out the land at the center of LCG’s spoil banks removal, likely ending all but one lawsuit from the caper.
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Council Preview: Spoil banks settlement and $1M for road work
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below: Parish Council Executive Sessions Garcia v. LCG. The Parish Council will meet behind closed doors to discuss a lawsuit stemming from a 2021 car crash with […]
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Council Preview: Library land, Brown Park funds and LUS’s $400M gas power plant
Lafayette’s councils will cast big votes on land for a new library, funding for Brown Park and LUS’s $400 million gas plant in a pair of busy meetings Tuesday.
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Council Preview: Vote on nurse raises, $3M for quick-take settlement
Lafayette’s Parish Council will vote on raises for public nurses Tuesday while the City Council will vote on $3M to settle an expropriation lawsuit.
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LCG sued again on St. Martin spoil banks project
A co-owner of the property, cut out of the land purchase, filed suit Thursday for damages.
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How Lafayette cleaned up its act — and the Vermilion River, too
Nearly 40 years into an effort to clean up America’s most polluted river, Lafayette is rebuilding its relationship with Bayou Vermilion.
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A Lafayette Consolidated Government contractor blocked the Vermilion River for hours without a permit while removing the Cypress Island Swamp spoil banks in February, potentially violating federal law.
Messages, design plans and videos obtained in a public records request show LCG contractor Rigid Constructors blocked the Vermilion River with four massive barges during the clandestine removal of the spoil banks in St. Martin Parish.
Source: The Advertiser
COLUMN: LCG’s ‘new pace of government’ could waste millions of drainage dollars
Guillory’s bureaucracy-busting approach could force Lafayette to spend millions filling holes it just spent millions digging out.
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Don’t panic: There is no flooding ‘silver bullet’
Researchers and engineers generally agree that solving Lafayette’s flooding problem will take a comprehensive approach.
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UL’s watershed center engaged to complete Vermilion River dredging study; report expected in January
The gist: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has contracted UL’s Watershed Flood Center to model the effect of dredging the Vermilion River. This would complete a long-awaited study — at one time expected to be finished at year’s end — that will determine the benefits and risks of digging out years of accumulated mud […]
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