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2022 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 20
BY REPRESENTATIVE KERNER
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to invest
future supplemental funding in the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown
Point located in Jefferson Parish aiding in flood protection and preventing future
losses and damages.
WHEREAS, the population in Jefferson Parish is approximately 429,711; and
WHEREAS, Jefferson Parish is the third largest parish in Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, there are approximately 100,179 properties in Jefferson Parish that have
a greater than twenty-six percent chance of being severely affected by flooding; and
WHEREAS, flood risks have increased in Jefferson Parish, and there is an extreme
risk of flooding over the next thirty years; and
WHEREAS, Jefferson Parish has greater overall flood risk than ninety-nine percent
of counties across the country; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a grant to aid in
flood mitigation in Jefferson Parish; and
WHEREAS, the United States Congress and the president of the United States did
not include the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown Point; however, the state of
Louisiana received supplemental funding for the parishes of Lafourche, Terrebonne,
Orleans, East Baton Rouge, Tangipahoa, and parts of Jefferson; and
WHEREAS, continued investments in flood mitigation are needed to prevent future
loss and damage resulting from natural disasters in the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and
Crown Point; and
WHEREAS, the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown Point have suffered
the adverse effects of the West Closure Complex drainage system and the one hundred-year
levees three miles north of the area; and
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WHEREAS, the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown Point have suffered
the adverse effects of the sediment diversion on United States Highway 90 and will suffer
from the proposed mid-Barataria sediment diversion; and
WHEREAS, the extreme risk of flooding in Jefferson Parish has shown the urgent
need to invest resources for the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown Point as a
means to protect life and property in the future, as citizens are continuously impacted by the
flooding and rebuilding of their homes and lives.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to invest more
resources into the communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown Point to aid in future flood
damage mitigation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to include the
communities of Lafitte, Barataria, and Crown Point in any future supplemental funding and
pre-mitigation funding to provide flood protection and to prevent future losses and damages.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress of the
United States of America and to each member of the Louisiana congressional delegation.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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