Lafayette Consolidated Government’s Environmental Quality Division is reviewing the city’s infrastructure to find better ways of protection during natural disasters.

Protecting the city’s foundation from flooding is something environmentalist believe begins with the ground up. City officials are teaming up with the community to learn exactly how to control where the water goes.

The Lafayette Consolidated Government’s Environmentalist Quality division begins with looking at post-construction stormwater control. To do so, they met with local engineers, architects, builders and general contractors to also learn about stormwater regulations during construction. It’s an effort to help the builders and developers know what to do and how to do it, the best way they can, to help control sediment and other pollutants from entering the watershed.

““City engineers have worked on stormwater detention, things that they’re doing to help manage some of those larger rain events so, when you build a new development, the impervious pavement that’s been put in place is handled a little bit by some detention and keeping that water on-site,” said Bess Foret, Environmental Quality Manager with the Lafayette Consolidated Government. 

The group analyzed several construction sites, facilities, bridges and parking lots within the community. This is the first of many workshops city officials plan to hold on this topic.