city government
South Claiborne drainage work will extend to Lowerline over next five years
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The drainage project starting next month on the uppermost end of South Claiborne Avenue will gradually extend downriver to Lowerline Street over the next five years, officials said Thursday evening, and Hollygrove residents worry that it will increase, rather than reduce, flooding in their neighborhood. The Sewerage & Water Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are building a major new drainage canal under South Claiborne that is expected to commence with utility relocation next month near Monticello Avenue and the Jefferson Parish line, officials said at an information session in the Carrollton community. The first segment of canal construction will then begin in April, followed by a second segment that starts in August, a third in January 2013, and a fourth, final segment in May 2013. That entire $27 million stretch — from Monticello to Leonidas Street — is known as Phase 1, and will wrap up in August 2014. However, there is a Phase 2, which runs from Leonidas to Lowerline.