Parish President announced a groundbreaking for the Ormond Jack And Boar drainage project and laid out a slate of infrastructure work the parish expects to complete or bid in the coming months, saying the combined 2025 capital program currently projects $59,390,520.

The Parish President invited residents to a 9 a.m. Tuesday groundbreaking at the Crescent Title parking lot, 12 Storehouse Lane in Destrehan, and said the Ormond project will add culverts beneath the railroad tracks, open drainage pathways and “allow for water to flow more efficiently to our pump station, north over there to Destrehan 2,” which he said will reduce flood risk on the south side of the tracks.

On CC Road, the president said crews have cleared overgrowth and fallen trees from the CC Road Canal using specialized equipment such as marsh buggies, removed accumulated spoil and reshaped shoulders to improve inspection and drainage after storm damage dating to Hurricane Ida and earlier storms. “It really is a night and day difference when you go down there,” he said.

He reported that work on the project’s first two months is “well underway,” that CC Road reopened Wednesday after initial sheet piling, and warned there will be intermittent closures as crews reach project milestones. At the Munster 1 station, he said wing walls are now in place to stabilize the sump and support pumps; geotechnical results required additional driven batter and plumb piles behind the sheet pile wall, with piles driven to an approximate 100‑foot depth, increasing costs at that station compared with earlier stations.

The president said several bids are scheduled in the immediate term: Ormond drainage improvements are set to be bid the following day; an unidentified speaker in the remarks said the sewer project will also bid the same day, and the Pinellas Canal bid is scheduled in about a week. He said parish staff will provide a separate list of completed wastewater projects and a proposed 2026 capital projects list.

The projected $59,390,520 covers drainage, roads, pump stations and recreation; the president said the final total may change depending on bid results.

Next steps: the parish will proceed with scheduled bids and bring a proposed 2026 capital projects list to the governing body for review.