Posted on 12/17/2023 10:14:27 AM PST by CFW
A similar event occurred in August, 2016 in the Baton Rouge area. A median barrier on I-12 made things worse.
Lawsuits target I-12 median wall, embankment in flooding but getting state to pay is no sure bet
Litigation is still ongoing.
New bill focuses on I-12 median that caused major flooding in Livingston Parish in 2016
You mean the Taxpayers and not the people who actually messed things up.
I think there is still some kind of approval process by the Feds.
WTH would Texas have to pay?
No, what I obviously meant was that whoever f’ed up needs to pay.
Five years ago the LCRA (a Texas state agency) opened up the floodgates and flooded Marble Falls. I know several families (including at least one longtime Freeper) that lost everything. Most of these houses were built above the floodplain and well above the highest elevation that the LCRA purchased the right to flood when they built the lake 70 years ago.
The state has the right to take your property whenever they want for a public purpose, whether it is to build a road or a temporary lake, but they are supposed to compensate you for it.
My farmer breakfast friends in south TX have hell with the windmill and pipeline people. They dig up the top soil and caliche, then when they fill back fill they are mixed. This mix will not grow crops. Took Google Earth photos of the pads around the windmills, and show large bare areas where the caliche and soil are mixed, doubling the loss of productive area.
One company was putting in a 42” pipeline, and they were supposed to put aside the topsoil and haul the caliche away. Instead, they packed the caliche TIGHT. One of my friends blew a fuse. The packed caliche will not grow corn, as the roots can’t penetrate the packed caliche. Clarence says the corn roots go very deep.
Real pain dealing with these people, farmers have to lawyer up. Learned I would never want to be a farmer.
Indeed. To really screw things up, you need only add in the Corps of Engineers.
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