Dozens of families in mobile home park without water for over a week
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Sunday, March 07 2021
Mar 7, 2021
March 07, 2021 11:39 PM
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BATON ROUGE - The Riverland Mobile Home Park located off north Airline Highway in Baton Rouge is filled with families with small children who have been without running water for more than nine days. Not ever have we been without water like this, Riverland resident, Melanie Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald has lived in Riverland for about 5 years now. She says residents have been getting water any way they can.
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Riverland residents have been storing water in buckets, and some have even installed large outdoor water containers.
Dozens of families in mobile home park without water for over a week
1 month 1 week 3 days ago
Sunday, March 07 2021
Mar 7, 2021
March 07, 2021 11:39 PM
March 07, 2021
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Source: WBRZ Staff
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BATON ROUGE - The Riverland Mobile Home Park located off north Airline Highway in Baton Rouge is filled with families with small children who have been without running water for more than nine days. Not ever have we been without water like this, Riverland resident, Melanie Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald has lived in Riverland for about 5 years now. She says residents have been getting water any way they can.
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Riverland residents have been storing water in buckets, and some have even installed large outdoor water containers.
Baton Rouge Water trying to address lingering problems from winter storm
1 month 3 weeks 3 days ago
Friday, February 19 2021
Feb 19, 2021
February 19, 2021 6:59 PM
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BATON ROUGE - Clean-up from the winter storm continues in the neighborhood along Kimbo Drive. They re still without power, and some are without sufficient water. My wife called me and told me we had a busted pipe. Panic then ensued and we rushed to fix it yesterday evening, but now our water heater is a total loss, Matt Copeland said.
Frozen and bursting pipes are keeping crews at Central Plumbing busy. The effect is detrimental, and it s very disheartening. Some people don t have the means necessary to have unexpected issues like this occur, and we re doing everything we can to keep the cost down, plumber Joshua Bell said.
Five years before five members of a Baton Rouge-area groundwater commission were charged with conflict-of-interest violations, an attorney for the commission warned of exactly the problem that led to the charges, commission records show.
In mid-2015, former Assistant Attorney General Megan K. Terrell, then the groundwater commission s legal advisor, concluded that state ethics law could bar commissioners from drawing a salary from the big groundwater users they were supposed to regulate, like Baton Rouge Water and ExxonMobil.
The 18-member Capital Area Ground Water Conservation Commission manages the Southern Hills aquifer, the drinking water source for nearly 600,000 people in the Baton Rouge area. The aquifer also supplies industries, farms, cattle ranches and others.
NAWC Announces Board Of Directors Members And New Chair
Rob MacLean
The National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) has elected Rob MacLean Board of Directors Chair for the coming year.
Rob MacLean joined Sugar Land, TX-based SouthWest Water Company in 2018 as President and CEO after holding various executive positions with American Water. His career has spanned more than 20 years in the water industry, and he has served as a volunteer leader for various regional and national organizations. SouthWest Water owns and operates regulated water and wastewater systems in five states. More than 600,000 people depend on SouthWest Water for high-quality, reliable service.