Moments ago President Clint Cointment and select members of East Ascension Consolidated Gravity Drainage District No. 1 (the District) announced an agreement in principle, 12 months in duration, whereby Cointment would retain his authority over drainage works on the east bank of Ascension Parish.  Negotiations resumed yesterday with a deal being reached Tuesday night.  It […]

HNTB’s John Monzon was on hand Monday to update EA Drainage District on the ongoing effort to produce a Floodplain Master Plan.  The presentation shifted focus to a new project aimed at pumping New River’s water from its western terminus into the Mississippi.  Monzon enumerated the substantial benefits to Ascension Parish along with four other […]

During Thursday’s meeting of Ascension’s Council, held virtually as the parish’s most recent COVID-19 positivity rate reached 22%, a major piece of drainage business was accomplished.  A unanimous approval of the Intergovernmental Agreement with Pontchartrain Levee District to undertake the Hwy 22 Gapping Project, $42 million worth of funding through the Louisiana Watershed Initiative (LWI) earmarked in 2020.  […]

It is not very often that a preliminary plat, already approved, is rescinded but that is just what happened on Wednesday to Buzzard Roost (Industrial Park)’s 1st Filing.  Six months having elapsed since the January 13 videoconference approval without construction drawings having been submitted, the plat is automatically rescinded unless the Planning Commission decides to extend.  […]

87 public preference cards were filled out at Monday’s Special Meeting of East Ascension Drainage Commission to decide whether or not to eliminate President Clint Cointment from directing drainage operations.  83 of them were RED, indicative of overwhelming opposition to the Commission’s plan, hatched in secret by Councilman Aaron Lawler and a handful of others, with […]

In a five-hour meeting Ascension’s Parish Council, by a 7-4 vote, opted to impose a nine-month moratorium on “future subdivision of property,” excluding industrially-zoned acreage but specifically including family partitions and simple divisions.  The Council opted for its own proposal (no individual member claimed authorship) after adding three months to the original version; rejecting President […]

Contemplating issuance of an RFQ for a Parish Wide Recreation Master Plan, two Parish Council committees explored the means to fund recreation in the wake approval to sell Ascension’s sewer treatment assets on April 24.  Back-to-back committee meetings on Recreation and Utilities on Thursday, and the council is preparing to spend the monies saved and/or generated by […]

With less than one-tenth of the electorate bothering to exercise the franchise, Ascension Parish’s Sewer Conveyance and Franchise Agreement with National Water Infrastructure (NWI) was approved by a comfortable 961-vote margin.  56% of the voters approved the deal, pitched as a means to fund other necessary infrastructure improvements more than an initiative to address the parish’s waterways […]