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City launches expanded drainage program: cameraing, cleaning contracts and a vac-truck purchase
Summary
Council authorized contracts for storm-drain cameraing and cleaning, approved a drainage maintenance agreement and introduced budget language to buy a vac truck; the mayor described a coordinated effort using GIS, survey and hydrology work funded by recent state and ARPA allocations.
The City Council on Tuesday authorized a series of actions to accelerate stormwater work after repeated localized flooding: staff won approval to hire contractors to camera and evaluate drainage lines, to contract cleaning crews and to purchase equipment — including a vac truck — as the city bands contractors and in‑house crews to address chronic problem areas.
Mayor and staff described a two-track approach: one contract will perform closed-circuit-television camera inspections and provide GIS-tagged video and survey data for flood-prone areas; a second firm, Louisiana Hydroblast Solutions LLC,…
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