BENTON, La. Construction on the final link connecting Interstate 220 north to Crouch Road could begin within 30 days after the Bossier Parish Police Jury voted Wednesday to accept
BENTON, La. District 5 Bossier Parish Police Jury member Jack “Bump” Skaggs announced his retirement from the public body Wednesday, telling his cohorts that a career move made it
BENTON, La. Bossier Parish will remain in the business of picking up certain trash and debris at no charge to homeowners. But parameters will be established to determine what will qualify for removal. Members of the police jury voted Wednesday to accept recommendations from the Road/Subdivision Regulations Committee approving continued service that began as massive cleanup campaigns following floods in 2015 and 2016, tornadoes and a hurricane. Committee Chairman Glenn Benton of District 2 said the Police Jury has already spent just over $10,000 this year to dispose of items that have been picked up by the highway departmentâs crews. âAnd that number does not include labor and equipment costs,â Benton said. âWe need to extend this service beyond the emergencies because if we donât, there will be items dumped on abandoned roads all over the parish.â
BENTON, La. Ground water levels in Bossier Parish are fairly high and trending upward, according to a preliminary report following one year of studies conducted by LSUS. Members of the Bossier Parish Police Jury heard Wednesday that average levels shown from three sample wells located in the northern, southern and central part of the parish range from just over three feet from the surface to roughly seven and a half feet. Just over a year ago, the Police Jury contracted with LSUS to study ground water levels after a series of water and sewer line failures. During repairs, parish engineers and contractors had to deal with water levels very close to the surface that were a major contributing factor to the line failures.