The St. Tammany Parish Council has essentially killed an ordinance that would have regulated the flow of raw sewage from the parish’s more than 36,000 residential septic systems.
In a move that could ultimately result in the shrinking of the governing body on which they serve, St. Tammany Parish Council members voted this month to appoint a committee
Voters in St. Tammany Parish put the finishing touches Saturday on what will be a vastly different Parish Council when its members are sworn into office in January.
Long-simmering tensions erupted at a council meeting on Wednesday night where the parish council presented the preliminary findings of its investigation into Parish President Mike Cooper.