Bulkhead project scheduled soon behind Jambalaya Park
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Ascension Parish drainage workers may soon be adding 300 feet of new bulkhead behind Jambalaya Park and the city swimming pool, the mayor of Gonzales said.
The new bulkheads along Bayou Francois and on the back side of the park will shore up an eroding canal bank and improve drainage in the bayou that runs through the city, parish drainage and city officials said.
The East Ascension Drainage District No. 1 Board of Commissioners and the Gonzales City Council approved a cost-share agreement for the approximately $30,000 project earlier this month.
Under the agreement, the parish is paying for the labor, the city is paying for materials and takes over maintenance long-term.
“So it’s a good deal for both,” Drainage District Director Bill Roux said.
Roux said the cost-share project should cost both the parish and the city each about $14,000 to $15,000.
Gonzales Mayor Barney Arceneaux said the bulkheads extend work done along the same bayou and completed before he took office in 2008.
Arceneaux said the city is looking at expanding the park in the long term and city officials wanted the bulkheads in place before that happened.
He said the bulkheads also improve the aesthetics of the bayou bank near the park.
City residents pay sales and property taxes into the drainage district that encompasses all of Ascension Parish’s east bank, as do residents in Sorrento.
Roux said the project will have the added benefit of eliminating maintenance and weed control work on the banks.
The commission approved the agreement Oct. 5 and the council did the same on Oct. 12, Roux and Arceneaux said.
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