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TANGIPAHOA PARISH COMMUNITY RECOVERY PLAN Long-Term Community Recovery Plan December 2017 TANGIPAHOA PARISH COMMUNITY RECOVERY PLAN Long-Term Community Recovery Plan December 2017 TANGIPAHOA PARISH, LOUISIANA Long-Term Community Recovery Plan December 2017 PARISH PRESIDENT Robby Miller PARISH COUNCIL Honorable James Bailey - District 2 Honorable Carlo S. Bruno - District 4 Honorable Bobby Cortez - District 10 Honorable Trent Forest - District 1 Honorable Louis Nick Joseph - District 3 Honorable Harry Lavine - District 9 Honorable Emile “Joey” Mayeaux - District 6 Honorable H.G. “Buddy” Ridgel - District 5 Honorable David Vial - District 8 Honorable Lionel Wells - District 7 COMMUNITY RECOVERY COORDINATOR Alyson Lapuma / Bridget Bailey COMMUNITY RECOVERY PLANNING STEERING COMMITTEE Bridget Bailey Kiley Bates Lauren Brinkman Andy Currier John Dardis Tonya Mabry Stacey Neal Dawson Primes Carla Tate Joe Thomas Kelly Wells Cover Photo: Tiffany Bailey, parish resident Community Recovery Planning Steering Committee Members Bridget Bailey Stacey Neal Kiley Bates Dawson Primes Lauren Brinkman Carla Tate Andy Currier Joe Thomas John Dardis Kelly Wells Tonya Mabry Sub-committee Members Economic Development Nyron Haynes - Louisiana Spirit Stacey Neal – Director, Tangipahoa Economic Development Sharon Landry - Northshore Healthcare Alliance Foundation (Chair) Lisa Lee - Catholic Charities Melissa Bordelon – Greater Hammond Chamber of Commerce Lisa McClinton – Louisiana Spirit Heather Dimatta Beth Price - Tangilena VOAD Bill Joubert - Southeastern University, Small Business Patricia Solomon – Tangipahoa Parish Council on Aging Billie Jo Laird – Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Bishop Rene Soule - LACES Dorothy “Dot” Levine – Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Michele Sutton - North Oaks Health Systems Michael Watkin – North Oaks Medical Center Pastor Keith Tillman - Christ Anointed Ministries Kelly Wells - Amite Chamber of Commerce (Independence) Valerie Vincent - LSU Ag Center Health and Social Services Mona Whitted - Louisiana Spirit Bridget Bailey – Director of Community Services Tangipahoa (Chair) Housing Sandra Burton - Turner Chapel AME (Roseland) Tanya Maybry - Director, Tangipahoa Parish Section 8 Housing Pastor Trent Campbell - River Rock Church (Loranger) (Chair) Melissa Carter - Ofce of Public Health/Disaster Response Anthony Denenea - Natalbany Rentals Jamene Dahmer- United Way Carolyn Jackson - Northlake Homeless Coalition Josh Dickson - First Baptist (Ponchatoula) Toni Jackson – Housing Specialist, Tangipahoa Parish Debi Fleming - Council on Aging Erin Matheny - Southeastern Louisiana University Amanda Mills - Northlake Homeless Coalition Infrastructure Planning Kiley Bates – Executive Director Drainage District No. 1 (Co- Bridget Bailey – Community Development Director Chair) Tangipahoa Parish (Chair), 9/23/17 to present Andy Currier – Tangipahoa Parish Director of Public Works Alyson Lapuma - Community Development Director (Co-Chair) Tangipahoa Parish (Chair), 5/16/17 to 9/23/17 Dennis Crocker – Tangipahoa Parish Fire District Administrator Lauren Brinkman – Tangipahoa Parish Planning (Co-Chair) Wesley Danna – Tangipahoa Parish Brad Cascio - Planning Commission Attorney Jack Geautreaux – Northshore Home Builders Association Missy Cowart – Director of Accounting and Grants Jim Gray – Tangipahoa Water District Management, Tangipahoa Parish Jason Hood – Tangipahoa Sewer District Lane Daniel – Tangipahoa Parish Planning Commission Maurice Jordan – Tangipahoa Parish Engineer John Dardis – Tangipahoa Parish Grant Consultant Jay Pittman – Spangler Engineering Honorable Louis Nick Joseph – Tangipahoa Parish Council District 3 Dawson Primes – Tangipahoa Parish Homeland Security Director Reynae Langlois – Tangipahoa Parish Planning Bill Moorman – Tangipahoa Parish GIS Natural and Cultural Resources James M. Prather III – Environmental Scientist, ELOS Carla Tate, Executive Director, Tangipahoa Parish Convention Environmental LLC and Visitors Bureau (Chairwoman) Jef Vallee – DR Horton Construction Company Alvon Brumfeld, Louisiana Renaissance Festival Amy Hoyt – Tangipahoa Parish Convention and Victors Bureau Donny Latiolais - Capital Resource Conservation and Development Council Frank Neelis – Friends of the Manchac Greenway Debbie Norwood - Louisiana Treasures Museum Jim Perrin - Collinswood Museum Whitney Wallace – Louisiana State University Agricultural Extension Service TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 5 Recovery Planning Process 17 Community Recovery Projects 21 Implementation/Next Steps 53 Appendices 59 Tri-Colored Heron Manchac Swamp: wetlandswanderer.wordpress.com EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Tangipahoa Parish was one of seven Louisiana parishes foods, precipitation ranged from 6 to more than 20 inches affected by catastrophic floods in both March and August throughout the Tangipahoa Watershed. The March and August 2016. Both flood events were declared major disasters by the foods resulted in 3 deaths in Tangipahoa Parish and 13 deaths federal government, which activated an array of federal statewide. programs to support the state in its response and recovery Tangipahoa Parish’s emergency responders documented more effort. In April 2017, Tangipahoa Parish President Robby than 5,000 residential and business structures that fooded Miller and parish department directors met with state in March 2016 and more than 10,500 fooded in August. At and federal officials to establish a community recovery least 90 percent of applicants who applied to the Federal planning process for Tangipahoa Parish. The goal of the Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Individual Assistance Tangipahoa Parish Community Recovery Plan is to provide program for the foods in March 2016 also sustained damage a blueprint that will help the parish manage its recovery for in the August foods. a stronger and more resilient future. As of October 2017, the parish’s combined total for FEMA Tangipahoa Parish Individual Assistance registrations was 15,915. The FEMA Public Assistance combined total was 103 projects at a total Tangipahoa Parish is located in southeastern Louisiana, with its cost of $5.3 million. southern border on Lake Pontchartrain and northern border at the Mississippi state line. The parish is vulnerable to tropical Community Recovery Planning Process storms and extreme rain events because of its low-lying land, meandering rivers, southern border on Lake Pontchartrain The parish’s recovery planning process was supported by and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. Besides the March and and aligned with the Federal government’s National Disaster August 2016 food events, there have been fve major disaster Recovery Framework. The framework establishes a structure to declarations in the parish since 2005. help coordinate the recovery eforts of the federal government, the private sector, and nongovernmental and community The Tangipahoa River and its tributaries are the primary surface organizations in order to support the state’s recovery. The water bodies in the parish. The river originates in southwest framework is organized into six components or Recovery Mississippi and enters Louisiana in Tangipahoa Parish. From Support Functions: Community Planning and Capacity there, it fows through the parish and empties into Lake Building, Housing, Infrastructure Systems, Economic Recovery, Pontchartrain. Health and Social Services, and Natural and Cultural Resources. Northern Tangipahoa Parish is predominately rural and the Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller appointed the south more developed with densely populated towns and parish’s community development director as the local disaster small cities. Elevation declines from north to south and recovery manager and steering committee chair. On May along the major drainage features of Tangipahoa River and 16, 2017, the steering committee, made up of a diverse cross Chappapeela Creek. section of the Tangipahoa Parish citizenry, held its frst meeting There are no major food-control structures in Tangipahoa and created six subcommittees: Infrastructure, Housing, Health Parish. and Human Services, Economic, Natural and Cultural Resources, and Planning. March and August Floods of 2016 From May through November 2017, the Tangipahoa Parish In Tangipahoa Parish, most of the fooding from the March Recovery Committee Steering Committee and subcommittees and August 2016 foods was due to the swelling of the held 40 meetings and workshops to discuss issues facing Tangipahoa River and its smaller tributaries that backed up and the community and share their ideas related to the parish’s overfowed during and after the substantial rains. During both recovery. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, CONTINUED The recovery committee hosted two open houses and conducted a survey that allowed the general public an opportunity to ofer feedback on recovery issues and solutions, and prioritize early projects, programs and policies identifed by the sub-committees. Based on citizen feedback from the open houses and the survey, the recovery planning sub- committees created a list of projects, programs and policies organized by the six Recovery Support Functions. This list was further refned based on feedback from a second survey and a “I think this one will way surpass the March food,” series of meetings with various civic organizations. Miller said. “It just breaks your heart to know that many of these people were just moving back into Tangipahoa Parish Recovery Projects, Programs and their homes and now they’ve been hit again. We’re Policies dealing with two 500-year floods in five months.” The goal of the Tangipahoa Parish Community Recovery
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