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Committee issues drainage report
The Concordia Parish Drainage Committee released a study Tuesday which identified drainage problems in the parish and suggested long-term solutions.
The committee was appointed in late 2010 and held its first meeting in January 2011. It states that its primary goal is "improve drainage and water quality while maintaining flood control and increasing economic opportunities."
Drainage Committee members include Bill Beasley, Jay DePrato, Mitzi Bolyer, Wendell Walker, J.W. Calhoun, Lewis Wigginton, Lee Stagg and police jurors Joe Parker, Willie Dunbar and Melvin Ferrington.
Beasley, who compiled the report, said the committee is charged with finding long-term solutions to the parish's drainage problems.
"We are looking at things that can be done throughout the parish that will improve drainage," he said.
Ferrington, who heads up the committee, said gravity flow structures along the Tensas River would provide drainage in the northern end of the parish that would divert some of the water from flowing southward through the parish's main drainage artery, Cocodrie Bayou.
Among many factors affecting drainage parishwide, committee members say, include the construction of a ring level in the 1950s which altered natural drainage into the Tensas River. Additionally, the vast reduction in timber acreage from the 1950s due to agricultural development has increased sediment flows into streams.
The committee's long-term objectives are to restore Cocodrie Bayou and its feeder streams, reduce future sediment buildup in the bayou, locate alternate drainage outlets for the area inside the ring levee system and develop water management plans.
A major problem with the ring levee system in the parish is that 278,000 acres depend on one outlet (Cocodrie) for drainage. Cocodrie is a scenic bayou with restrictions.For the full story, subscribe to the The Concordia Sentinel's NEW E-Edition! |
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