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The engineers toiling away on East Baton Rouge Parish's Stormwater Master Plan said Thursday they've collected all the data they need to build the models that will predict flood risks ...
When construction on Baton Rouge's biggest-ever flood control project started in 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projected the then-roughly $500 million plan would be finished by the end of ...
After the historic floods, drinking-water service to nearly 3,000 Baton Rouge-area homes was disconnected for not timely paying their bills despite the governor’s emergency order for the company ...
The flood is just the latest big story to hit Baton Rouge in recent months as the newspaper has grappled with the city’s turbulent news. In early July, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man ...
Acres will be destroyed to reduce levee pressure around Baton Rouge, Big Easy. May 13, 2011 — -- Louisiana residents are being warned today: The Army Corps of Engineers will open the Morganza ...
While Walmart had already donated $100,000 to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank after the floods in August, the company donated another $100,000 to the organization.
To stop Baton Rouge floods, they’re carving a 12-mile river. To stop Baton Rouge floods, they’re carving a 12-mile river . The (Baton Rouge) Advocate // May 16, 2022 // ... “This is a much less ...
BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana First) — Louisiana has sent teams to support Texas after catastrophic flooding over the weekend in the Hill Country. The death toll has reached over 80 as of Monday ...
The Devastation from the flooding in Texas has escalated quickly with at least 82 people dead, and many others missing, ...
Most of Louisiana’s $1.6 billion dollars in federal flood recovery money has been dedicated to homeowners. But thousands of businesses also need financial… ...
I was living in Baton Rouge in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit and what seemed like half the population of New Orleans ended up in my neighborhood; and again, only a month later, when Rita — an ...