SLS 24RS-4247 ORIGINAL
2024 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 140
BY SENATOR CONNICK
TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT. Requests the Department of Transportation and
Development to perform a cost benefit analysis on merging the Lafitte Area Independent
Levee District with the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To request the Department of Transportation and Development to perform a cost benefit
3 analysis on merging the Lafitte Area Independent Levee District with the Southeast
4 Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West.
5 WHEREAS, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West
6 (SLFPA-West) is one of two levee authorities serving metropolitan New Orleans; and
7 WHEREAS, SLFPA-West provides flood protection for the most populated areas on
8 the west bank of the Mississippi River in Jefferson and Orleans Parishes by building,
9 operating, and maintaining flood control systems; and
10 WHEREAS, the jurisdiction of the SLFPA-West covers approximately forty seven
11 miles of hurricane flood protection levees, floodwalls, and floodgates and approximately
12 thirty-three miles of Mississippi River levees and floodwalls; and
13 WHEREAS, a seven-member board of commissioners oversees SLFPA-West, which
14 is made up of two levee districts, the West Jefferson Levee District, which serves the west
15 bank portions of Jefferson Parish, and the Algiers Levee District, which serves the west bank
16 portions of Orleans Parish; and
17 WHEREAS, the Algiers Levee District was reorganized to encompass the portion
18 of the parish of Orleans on the west side of the Mississippi River and the West Jefferson
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SLS 24RS-4247 ORIGINAL
1 Levee District was reorganized and encompasses all lands in the parish of Jefferson on the
2 west side of the Mississippi River, except that area of land contained in the Lafitte Area
3 Independent Levee District.
4 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
5 does hereby urge and request the Department of Transportation and Development to perform
6 a cost benefit analysis on merging the Lafitte Area Independent Levee District with the
7 Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West.
8 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the department shall prepare and deliver the report
9 to the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, the Senate
10 Committee on Finance and to the David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library as required
11 by R.S. 24:771 and 772, no later than December 1, 2024.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Archana D. Cadge.
DIGEST
SR 140 Original 2024 Regular Session Connick
Requests the Department of Transportation and Development perform a cost benefit analysis
on merging the Lafitte Area Independent Levee District with the Southeast Louisiana Flood
Protection Authority West.
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