Maintenance Division
Tensas Basin Levee District
The TBLD Maintenance Division is led by the Operations Superintendent overseeing Levee Maintenance Superintendents with crews in both the Monroe and Jonesville locations. It is the mission of the Maintenance Division to provide the physical, operational, and financial integrity of flood control features throughout our district. This is accomplished by a staff dedicated to operating and maintaining these projects in a manner that best serves the residents of Northeast Louisiana by minimizing the risk and probability of flooding in our 8 parishes.
This team maintains approximately 250 miles of levee, 361 miles of flood control channels, 188 floodgates, 7 stormwater pumping stations, and 15 dams(weirs). Maintenance includes mowing and repairing levees, channels, pump stations, flood control structures and all other flood control features throughout our district.