You have permission to edit this article. When it comes to avoiding a repeat of the 2016's record-breaking deluge and disaster, many communities are still floating ideas. The Flood Event Viewer provides access to USGS monitoring activities for the August 2016 floods in Louisiana. Living at Ascension has completely changed the way I think about home. Recently,more fundingwas announced for Louisiana flood protection projects. As detailed in the Facebook post above, authorities announced that the following roads are either closed or not passable: Belle Savanne Ave at Hwy 73 (Geismar)Bert Allen Rd at Hwy 621 (Gonzales)Bluff Rd at Hwy 74 (Geismar)Clay St at Church St (Donaldsonville)Duplessis at Beau Jon Ave (Prairieville)E Angelle Ct at N Angelle Ct (Gonzales)Evangeline Dr at Acadian Dr (Donaldsonville)Hwy 75 at Waterloo Dr (Geismar)Hwy 930 at West Ln (Prairieville)Jonathan Alaric Ave at Beau Douglas Ave (Gonzales)Mire Rd at Joby Ln (Gonzales)Mississippi St at Lessard St (Donaldsonville)Mississippi St at Railroad Ave (Donaldsonville)Mississippi St at St Vincent (Donaldsonville)Mississippi St at St Patrick St (Donaldsonville)Old Jefferson Hwy at Jefferson Crossing Ave (Prairieville)Old Jefferson Hwy at Monticello Dr (Prairieville)Perkins Rd at Airline Hwy (Prairieville)St Patrick St at Third St (Donaldsonville)Tiggy Duplessis Rd at Golden Meadow St (Gonzales)**W Tenth St at Catalpa St (Donaldsonville)Woodgate Ave at Woodchase Ct (Prairieville)Amanda St at Brittany St (Sorrento)Babin Rd at Airline Hwy (Gonzales)Bayou Narcisse/Cleo RdBayou Narcisse/JJ LanouxBlack Bayou at Ott Ln (Gonzales)Black Bayou at Hilbert Young (Gonzales)Black Bayou at Oneal**Boudreaux Rd at Bayou View AveCannon Rd/Dee GautreauRd(Gonzales)Cannon Rd/George Rouyea Rd(Gonzales)**Cannon Rd/Poto Ln**Causey Rd at Braud Rd (Prairieville)Chester Diez at Cal Rd**Clouatre Rd at Kurt Kundler Rd (Gonzales)Clouatre Rd at Hodgeson Rd (Gonzales)Ernest Floyd Rd N at Hwy 941 (Gonzales)Galaxy Blvd at Jupiter Ave (Darrow)Galaxy Blvd at Neptune Blvd (Darrow)Guist Rd at Hwy 941 (Gonzales)Hwy 22 at Ernest Floyd Rd S (Sorrento)Hwy 44 at Black Bayou Rd (Gonzales)Hwy 44 at Hwy 621 (Gonzales)Hwy 621 at Della Marchand(Gonzales)**Hwy 621 at Poes Rd (Gonzales)Hwy 621 at Young Rd (Gonzales)Hwy 621 at Lolley Ln (Gonzales)**Hwy 73 at Spellman Rd (Geismar)Hwy 73/Rivergate**Hwy 74 at Chester Diez Rd (Gonzales)Hwy 74 at Sterling**John West Rd at Hwy 931 (Gonzales)Manchac Place Dr at Bluff Rd (Prairieville)Oak St at Brittany St (Sorrento)Oak St at Poplar St (Sorrento)Pebblestone Ave at Timberstone Dr (Prairieville)Pelican Point Pkwy at Hwy 44 (Gonzales)Poplar St at Hackberry St (Sorrento)Provence Pointe Ave at Hwy 73 (Prairieville)Roddy Rd from Hwy 621 to Conifer RDRoyal Palms Ct at Pelican Point Pkwy (Gonzales)Summerfield at Hwy 431 (Prairieville)Sumter Dr at Charleston Rd (Prairieville)Swamp Rd E at Swamp Rd S (Prairieville)Swamp Rd E at Raybon Rd (Prairieville)Tommy Moore Rd at Airline Hwy (Gonzales)Toby at Fairchild RdW Edenborne/S St Landry, Volunteers searching streets of Baton Rouge for missing Georgia man, LSU gymnastics club meet brings tourists to downtown Baton Rouge. Parish official said they currently have set up and are running six pumps at Alligator Bayou Road, four 24-inch tractor pumps and two 30-inch axle driven pumps. DO NOT share this content with minors- share it with your friends of age! BATON ROUGE - The Tigers win the Podium Watch the 2 Your Health report for Friday, March 3, 2023. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Ascension on the Bayou has created not just a high-end apartment complex, but a wonderful community experience which makes it a truly unique and desirable place to live. Fax: (225) 442-1736, 908 East 1st Street There was a problem saving your notification. On Wednesday, Parish President Clint Cointment said the Ascension Department of Public Works plans to cut Alligator Bayou Road at Fish Bayou to facilitate drainage from Spanish Lake and Bluff Swamp basin. Its why Ascension Parish officials are looking at fixing the issues surrounding New River Bayou. Gonzales is one of the lucky ones who is staying dry. Still flooded from last week's storm, Ascension to 'cut,' close roads to help drain like in 2016. Now of course even with all of this new flood mitigation construction, the parish is still considering a moratorium. In 2016, an estimated 17 billion gallons of water flowed over the road and into the swamp basin until the high water could be stopped with large sandbags and other measures. (WAFB) - New flood mitigation measures are being developed in parts of Ascension Parish that will hopefully prevent flooding in the future. Cointment says this is one of the waterways they are able to control more unlike Bayou Manchac, controlling the amount of water capacity along New River Bayou, it will help those along Bluff and Ridge Road. stream So, we are able to establish capacity beforehand and able to take that volume from that basin giving us another option, says Cointment. x[[o6~7,lEH]EN] E }PdG[y4v_BJNP(og?z'"TEg\'2tf9+z~&D Anything that would reduce that flooding would help improve the forest's health, he said. Increased flow and strong current will affect river traffic. CONVENT - A highway in St. James Parish Saturday AM Forecast: Today's weather will be near perfect. The State-run Louisiana Watershed Initiative has, $50 million secured for Livingston Parish drainage projects, $760 million secured for the West Shore Project, $400 million secured for the Comite Diversion Project, $255 million East Baton Rouge Flood Control Project, $350 million for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding, For more information about these projects and funding, click, The East Baton Rouge Metro Council also recently. So, with previous storms- in 2016 as well as in May 2021- we had to cut the road to let the water out. . The East Baton Rouge Metro Council also recentlyapproveda $20 million budget for drainage projects from federal funding. Grays Creek and the main channel of the Amite River will merge. 1 LSU's big win over Butler. If they can keep that much more water out than what we had last time by doing that then we wouldnt have had water in our house, Braud said. If you notice any errors in the below information, please contact our. Bold criminal secretly relaunched massage parlor prostitution ring as he cut a Federal, local dollars at work clearing waterways in EBR, St. John's big inning hands Southeastern second straight loss, Coach Kim Mulkey talks LSU's record-tying season. As growth has continued to sprawl around the swamp basin, more roofs and concrete have sent more runoff into the basin. We're still going to get all this water from EBR, so there's no plan to protect the northern part of the parish with this effort," Orgeron asked last week. ASCENSION PARISH, La. For more than a decade, officials in Ascension and Iberville parishes have sought ways to speed the flow of water in and out of the Spanish La. The latest bout of high water stems from heavy rains that caused severe flash flooding in Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes last week and the subsequent drainage from those areas -- where rain approached 14 inches in a short span -- into the Bayou Manchac area. Horizontal Datum: Fax: (225) 442-1736, Ascension, East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes reaching regional solutions, BATON ROUGE, LA U.S. Parish officials announced Wednesday that crews plan to cut the drainage route where the road crosses over Fish Bayou either Friday or Saturday. Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana)issued the following statement after East Baton Rouge (EBR) Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Iberville Parish President Mitchell Ourso announced their recommendation to improve drainage along Bayou Manchac at the border of the two parishes. As workers stand on a temporary bridge, high water from the Bluff Swamp flows Friday, May 28, 2021, into Bayou Manchac, bottom, through a new, temporary drainage channel, center, left, cut across. Scotch on the Bayou Historic Flooding in Bayou Pigeon, Louisiana - May, 2021 In this video, witness the historic level of flooding in Bayou Sorrel and. In the latest incident, only some water got over the road before Iberville Parish was able to install inflatable AquaDams on the road, Iberville officials have said. N. - Katy and Points West - HAIF - Houston's original social media Home Houston Area Neighborhoods and Places Katy and Points West Ascension On The Bayou: Multifamily At 150 W. Sam Houston Pkwy. Beefier police presence planned at football game after BRPD chief got into scuffle while making arrest near campus. Untreated wastewater oozed onto residential streets and into several dozen homes after a sewage plant in southern East Baton Rouge Parish fail, Hurricane Ida clogged streams, rivers and bayous with tree branches and other debris, which local leaders worry could make those waterways mor. Graves joined together with Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment, Iberville Parish President Mitchell Ourso, City of St. Gabriel Mayor Lionel Johnson, officials from Baton Rouge, and several other drainage leaders from the region. For Sale: 14306 Bayou Terrace Dr, St Amant, LA 70774 $70,000 MLS# 2023003283 Beautiful waterfront lod ready to build! Port Allen Pelicans basketball team soaring toward fourth-straight state title, Sample duo leading Scotlandville into playoffs, For help accessing the WBRZ-TV Public File, contact: Joey Verrett at, The implications of Walgreens' decision on abortion pills. The plan already has received mixed reviews from some Ascension officials. Walgreens says it will not start selling an abortion pill in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did so. Backwater flooding occurs along the lower reaches of these streams and along Bayou Manchac. Slinte, Yall! Check out Scotch on the Bayou Merch: https://my-store-11579182.creator-spring.com Check out the Scotch on the Bayou Blog for more in-depth reviews of this and other Camp Dram bottle reviews, life in Louisiana, distillery tours, recipes, and my travels in Scotland.This video is NOT sponsored. Others say Ascension is leaving too many other stones unturned. For years, as East Baton Rouge has sprawled south and Ascension and Iberville parishes have reached north, people have searched for ways to unclog the scenic bottleneck that is Bayou Manchac. THE FORECAST Water will spread across the entire area from Bayou Mancha south to Port Vincent. We are committed to helping direct funding toward improved drainage of the Manchac, Alligator Bayou, and Spanish Lake basin, Graves said. Though still very early, engineers working for Ascension Parish now say they may have found a plan to provide the long-sought back-door drain for the Spanish Lake region and, by extension, Manchac, as the August 2016 flood, repeated hurricane threats and the rains of May have focused attention on the region's drainage issues. This weeks announced plan will focus on clearing the East Baton Rouge portion. The gate can't be opened until water is low enough in Bayou Manchac to prevent bayou water from flowing back into the swamp basin. Person hurt in shooting at apartment complex on Lobdell Boulevard early Saturday, Roads reopened after fire at Entergy substation in St. James Parish. Follow David J. Mitchell on Twitter, @NewsieDave. There have been a lot of fights about who should take on the water and flood. FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layers not showing? HNTB officials did not respond immediately to requests for comment. Iberville has been putting up Aquadams to protect those people from more water from Bayou Manchac. We appreciate our three parish leaders taking this first step and we look forward to more announcements over the coming months. Together, the floodgate, levee and ridge are designed to prevent backwater, which rises from the Amite when it is high, from flowing upstream into Henderson Bayou and flooding northeast Ascension. The weekend BATON ROUGE - The Southern University men's Senior Night basketball game was postponed Saturday afternoon when the lights in the gym cut off. LSU women's basketball bounced out of SEC LSU women's basketball bounced out of SEC Tournament by Tennessee. We believe our homes, businesses and families should not be flooding. These communities in Iberville Parish are close knit and self dependent. The dams extend into Ascension Parish. Along with dredging, the hope is that new projects will allow water to flow easier. Days after sitting in on a presentation about the plan with the parish councilmen who make up the drainage panel, Parish President Clint Cointment received a notice on Thursday that he would be terminated as head of drainage. The high watermark on the tree shows where the water reached during the 2016 summer floods -- the only other time the community experienced severe flooding. Iberville has been putting up Aquadams to protect those people from more water from Bayou Manchac. The people who live in Bluff Swamp began flooding late last week from rain and drainage in the swamp region west of Bluff Road. Ascension Parish officials say they cant wait any longer, on Nash Road, this is just one of many small projects that is going to make a big difference for folks who had tons of flooding within the past couple of weeks. Thibodaux, LA 70301 But EBR says the dams could worsen flooding there. We believe our homes, businesses and families should not be flooding. "I wouldn't expect that road to be open any time soon," said John Connelly, a parish spokesman. The high watermark on the tree shows where the. On the other hand, people who study and manage the ecology of the Spanish Lake region said, at first blush, a New River pump might provide an important benefit that has been unrecognized in recent talks. View the Enhanced Operating Capability Products and Services StoryMap here. Paul Kemp, who has studied the Bluff Swamp as LSU coastal sciences professor, said longer periods of flooding don't allow cypress and hardwood seedlings to take root. So, we are just taking a proactive stand on our weir system works here, and what we are going to do is we are going to go ahead and install 42 inches pipes with gate valves. Water is still high and relatively close to the roadway from the May floods and the draining of the Spanish Lake basin into Bayou Manchac. Some are still waiting for the water to go down around their homes. With U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funding, East Baton Rouge officials are also planning a major clearing of creeks and bayous that dump runoff into Manchac and the Amite. John Monzon, civil works manager for HNTB, told an Ascension drainage panel that the pump would allow the parish to better control water levels in Bluff Swamp and build up flood storage capacity in advance of big rains. Other questions:subscriberservices@theadvocate.com. The Southern #1 LSU baseball with 26 run outburst to throttle Central Connecticut State on Saturday. Winds will ease into the evening. Global climate change has also made rains more intense. The Tigers beat out No. Councilman Corey Orgeron, who represents northern Prairieville west of Airline Highway, had a basic question for Monzon. Also, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said the idea would also likely prompt an extensive permitting review because it will affect the hydrology of a large wetland area containing federal land banks set up to compensate for wetlands loss elsewhere in Louisiana. "The problem is really understanding, you know, what drives the flood risk and where the flood risk is and what's going to change the flood risk is, obviously, complicated or people would have solved it long before now," Jacobsen said. The drugstore Southern University loses power before men's Senior Night basketball game. Interpreting hydrographs and NWS watch, warnings, and forecasts, and inundation maps, Survey grade GPS equipment, FEMA flood plain maps, newer USGS topographic maps, Older USGS topographic maps, NGVD29 benchmarks, Older USGS topographic maps, MSL benchmarks. Some of the pumps are run by tractors. Just praying for the rain to stop is not a valuable solution, says one female who lives near Bluff Swamp. After the 2016 Flood, Graves secured over $3 billion in federal funding to protect our homes, businesses, law enforcement, livelihoods, schools and the communities of South Louisiana. Flood of Record occurred on August 15, 2016. On October 4, 2021, Graves convened Ascension Parish Pres. Reservoirs? Friday PM Forecast: starting weekend cooler then trending warmer. Iberville has been putting up Aquadams to protect those people from more water from Bayou Manchac. The area has gradually become a runoff site for fast-growing parts of Ascension, East Baton Rouge and Iberville parishes but has a limited and congested path for all that drainage water to exit toward the Amite River, the ultimate runoff outlet for much the Baton Rouge region. Though the plans have raised worries in downstream parishes, like Ascension, the Corps of Engineers has said analyses show the work won't worsen flooding. The meeting will take place next Thursday. The aim was to control water levels in the Spanish Lake Basin to protect landowners, hardwood forests and to restore the flooded, 80-acre Cypress Flats to a . With quick backdoor access to Houston's treasured Terry Hershey Park, our residents are all set for working out, picnicking, or just enjoying the . Phone: (985) 448-4103 You must be of legal drinking age in your country to watch this channel. The funds advance flood protection, mitigation and resiliency, including: For more information about these projects and funding, clickhere. Instead, efforts need to be focused on getting the water out and these announcements are the first steps in that process. The FEMA Web Mapping Service (WMS) is down. This lot sits on the popular Amite River/Diversion Canal right at the wei. Ascension consulting engineers have proposed linking New River with the southern end of the Bluff Swamp at a chronic low spot at La. Recent leadership and electoral turmoil on the East Ascension drainage panel that would pursue the project likely through Louisiana Watershed Initiative funding may also call into question what the body ultimate decides once HNTB finishes its analysis of the concept. Three pumps, red objections on right, background, siphon water from the Bluff Swamp and send into Bayou Manchac early Monday, May 24, 2021, in an attempt to lower high water levels in the swamp basin. endobj Map shows how when Bayou Manchac floods, it puts many homes in East Baton Rouge, Ascension and Iberville parishes at risk. Published: Jun. The La. Also on Wednesday morning, Iberville Parish officials reopened their floodgate at Alligator Bayou, further increasing drainage from the basin into Bayou Manchac, Ascension officials said. According to the How do I know if I have a cold, the flu or COVID-19? <> Bold criminal secretly relaunched massage parlor prostitution ring as he cut a St. John's big inning hands Southeastern second straight loss, Coach Kim Mulkey talks LSU's record-tying season. That kind of work could require, Rosso said, dredging out the Amite from its mouth at Lake Maurepas north and then into Manchac. % A similar effort happened after even more severe flooding in the August 2016 flood. We absolutely love it here. A new pump station at the Mississippi would draw water from the swamp through New River and a newly dug canal into the "big muddy.". BATON ROUGE, LA U.S. The new flood gate on Alligator Bayou Road in Prairieville opens and closes depending on how much rain falls. 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