Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) has received final approval from the Louisiana Division of Administration’s Office of Facility Planning and Control to complete the long-delayed detention ponds along the Coulee Ile De Cannes (CIDC). This authorization removes the final barrier that has stalled progress since August 2023, allowing construction to restart.

Construction at the site has been dormant for more than two years because LCG did not have the required final engineering designs, federal permits or state approvals to connect the ponds to Coulee Ile De Cannes. This approval allows LCG to move forward with building those connections — the intake and outfall structures that let the ponds take on water when the coulee rises and release it once water levels recede, according to LCG.

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