. . .
In April, the council voted
unanimously to impose a 90-day waiting period on the development until
the parish finished conducting a study to determine how problems with
flooding and drainage in the area could be corrected.
Arthur
DeFraites, whose Houma engineering firm, GSE Associates, was hired in
April to study drainage in the area, presented the findings in a
council committee meeting Tuesday. DeFraites' firm offered a four-phase
solution to solving the area's drainage problems: . . .
. . .
At the
beginning of the year, they plan to ask Arthur DeFraites of GSE
Associates Inc., the district’s consulting engineering firm, to
compile a comparison of the district’s options. . . .
Town of Berwick officials joined contractors and
representatives of Gulf South Engineers in a brief ceremony this week
to commemorate the opening of the newly completed walking trail
extension. Gray Construction began work on the extended trail early in
2003. The nearly $150,000 project, which lengthens walkways already in
place, helps to safely connects activity centers, recreation areas and
schools with residential neighborhoods in the Berwick area. The
completed trail is nearly three miles long and reaches into the
neighborhoods on Pattie Drive, Renwick Street and Gilmore Street. The
walking trail follows La. 182 from Sandra Street past Gilmore Street
and over a walkway bridge just north of Pattie Drive. It extends down
Gilmore Street to Pharr Park and down Pattie Drive to Berwick High
School. From left are Gray Construction Superintendent John Czajka,
Berwick Police Chief Duval Arthur, Councilman Ray Rasberry, Mayor
Emmett Hardaway, Mayor Pro-tem Louis Ratcliff, Assistant Police Chief
James Richard, GSE Project Manager Carl Jakob and Project
Representative Richard Lottinger.
