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Bodcau Bayou At Bayou Bodcau Lake affecting Webster and Bossier
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interested parties should take necessary precautions immediately.
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BENTON, Louisiana (KTBS) A Bossier City attorney’s personal insurance company has paid the cash value of a taxpayer-owned vehicle he totaled after crashing it into a bayou last year.
State Farm paid the Bossier Parish District Attorney’s office $17,839 on behalf of its insured, H. Lyn Lawrence. Lawrence was out-of-pocket the $500 deductible required by his insurance policy.
Lawrence pleaded no contest in January in Bossier District Court to failure to report an accident. He was fined $100 plus court costs.
With that plea accepted and the appeal deadline passed, records related to the crash became public record and were obtained by KTBS.
Red Chute Bayou at Dogwood is bank full, but holding steady.
Despite several days of rainfall in Bossier Parish and areas to the north that bring additional water into the area’s streams and bayous, no serious problems with high water have occurred, according to Ian Snellgrove, Director of the Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
Snellgrove said one of the primary tributaries for directing water flow to the south is Red Chute Bayou. The flow enters through the Corps of Engineers’ Bodcau system which holds water before discharging into Bayou Bodcau, then into Red Chute.
Currently, Snellgrove said, Red Chute Bayou is “…bank full on the northern end of the parish, but is outflowing well as water moves downstream toward the Red River.”