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Livingston Parish committee moves to draft oversight water committee after Killian failures
Summary
After testimony from state and rural-water experts and Killian’s mayor, the Livingston Parish Master Plan Review Committee agreed to draft a recommendation for an oversight water committee to monitor system grades, pursue funding, and coordinate technical support.
The Livingston Parish Master Plan Review Committee agreed Feb. 2 to develop a formal recommendation for an oversight water committee to monitor and support local water systems after experts described consolidation and funding pathways that could prevent crises like the Killian receivership.
Committee members heard from Steven Juba, engineering services section chief at the Louisiana Department of Health, and William “Rusty” Reeves of the Louisiana Rural Water Association, who both urged a coordinated, locally led approach to build system resiliency and access state and federal funding. ‘‘Resiliency, public health is better supported by volume,’’ Juba said, urging managerial consolidation in many cases over costly physical interconnects.
Why it matters: Several small and privately run systems in south…
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