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Residents, street crew debate responsibility after heavy rain floods yards and streets
Summary
Crowley officials and residents discussed recent heavy rainfall, blocked culverts and ditches, and who is responsible for clearing them after community members said yards and streets flooded; city staff described capacity limits and a plan to inspect problem sites.
City officials and residents traded complaints and explanations Thursday over neighborhood flooding after a recent heavy rain, with residents urging faster cleanup of clogged ditches and city staff saying some clearing falls on private property and regional drainage channels are outside city control.
The dispute centered on West Sixth Street and other West Crowley neighborhoods where residents said standing water, trash in culverts and overgrown ditches have caused repeated flooding. Resident Sandra Handy said the problem has worsened in the past six years and that she had repeatedly reported the location: “The ditches need to be cleaned out. The drains need to be… the ditches need to be cleaned out. And nobody doing it,” she said.
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