The Louisiana State Capitol, the place where problems are supposed get solved, is surrounded by the effects of one of those problem that needs solving.
Louisiana Senators approve taskforce to study storm water, cleaning up waterways
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The growing number of plastic bottles and beer cans accumulating behind LSU’s Burden Center is one step closer to being cleaned up.
A taskforce aimed at cleaning up the mess Louisianans have left behind got the nod of approval from the Senate Thursday, it now heads to the House for approval.
The taskforce would look at the costs associated with implementing a comprehensive storm water plan and how to pay for them.
According to Sen. Franklin Foil who is proposing the taskforce, most cities around the state fail to remediate storm water impairments due to a lack of available funds to install litter collecting equipment.
Homebuilding begins at The Lakes at Harveston as fitness center completed
Friday, April 30, 2021 Mike Wampold, right, discusses construction plans regarding Harveston, his traditional neighborhood development, with builder Chuck Dupree in 2019. (Marie Constantin)
Mike Wampold and John Fetzer have completed construction on a $6.5 million clubhouse and fitness center at the Lakes at Harveston, the second residential development in their planned community at Nicholson Drive and Bluebonnet Boulevard.
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Effort to clean up Baton Rouge watershed scores small victory in Legislature
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
EYESORE: This collection of some 81 tons of garbage from homes and vehicles across south Baton Rouge traveled along Wards Creek before settling on property in a wooded area off Essen Lane near the LSU Burden Museum and Gardens. (Marie Constantin)
A growing group of interested stakeholders dedicated to cleaning up litter in Baton Rouge scored a small victory at the Legislature today, when a Senate committee passed a measure “urging and requesting” the state Department of Environmental Quality do a feasibility study on a comprehensive stormwater master plan.
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