On Monday, after four months a wrangling East Ascension Drainage Board approved a deal whereby the Parish President will continue to oversee drainage works. The newly-adopted MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (an Addendum to the Existing Contract) requires the hiring of a Drainage Director and a “liaison” but, for the most part, formalizes rudimentary tasks and obligations already owed by […]
EA Drainage approves deal with Cointment in raucous meeting (another Orgeron meltdown)
10/19/2021 by
EA Drainage and Cointment reach a deal
09/29/2021 by
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 […]
New River pump station into the Mississippi explained by HNTB
09/22/2021 by
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 […]
Council approves $42 Million agreement for Hwy 22 Bridge Construction drainage improvements
08/06/2021 by
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. […]
Buzzard Roost preliminary plat approval rescinded
07/19/2021 by
It is not very often that a preliminary plat, already approved, is rescinded but that is just what happened on Wednesday to Buzzard Roost (Industrial Park)’s 1st Filing.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the January 13 videoconference approval without construction drawings having been submitted, the plat is automatically rescinded unless the Planning Commission decides to extend. […]
Citizen’s “smoking gun” exposes Lawler’s “bum deal” to approve Oak Grove Townhomes
07/16/2021 by
Willow Lake Subdivision’s lakes continue to suffer intrusion of silt from Oak Grove Townhomes‘ development to the north. A regrettable situation which should never have occurred…and would not have if Dantin Bruce Development, LLC was a better corporate neighbor and Willow Lakes’ elected representative had not engineered its plat approval. Councilman Aaron Lawler was called […]
Commissioner Ken Firmin changes vote to approve (once denied) Delaune Estates
07/15/2021 by
What has changed since Antebellum Pointe subdivision was denied by a 4-3 vote of Ascension’s Planning Commission on March 11, 2020? Enough to garner approval of the re-branded Delaune Estates, the same 237 lots planned west of Hwy 73, south of White Road in Prairieville. A roomful of residents went home unhappy on Wednesday when the one-vote denial […]
Commission votes to strip Cointment of drainage duties, ignoring public outcry
06/28/2021 by
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 […]
Bill Roux: “Drainage should be a department…under the Parish President”
06/28/2021 by
Bill Roux was brought on to head up Ascension Parish’s Department of Public Works by his friend, and newly-inaugurated President Harold Marchand in 2000. With the position came the responsibility to oversee East Ascension Drainage works pursuant to a longstanding Intergovernmental Agreement whereby the District contracted for services from the parish, paying a 4% fee for […]
Cointment’s 12-month moratorium rejected as Council opts for 9-month version
06/18/2021 by
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 […]
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