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Tensas Basin Levee District staff attended the Association of Levee Boards Convention in New Orleans. TBLD Executive Director Brandon Waggoner mediated a panel of directors from other flood protection agencies and districts discussing Louisiana’s flood control practices and needs.
About the Levee District
The Tensas Basin Levee District was created by an Act of the Legislature in 1884 and is the oldest levee district in the state. The district includes all or part of eight parishes: Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, LaSalle, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland and West Carroll.
The Governing Board consists of eleven commissioners, one in each parish, an additional at-large member and two additional commissioners in Ouachita Parish.
Tensas Basin Levee District personnel operate and maintain flood control facilities, to include levees, pump stations and major drainage channels.
