NEW IBERIA, La. — (WVUE) Forty years ago, Mike Richard was looking for a way to reduce the amount of groundwater being used at his family’s nursery near New Iberia. He converted a cattle pasture into a series of ponds.
“I needed an irrigation pond to treat the water for the nursery and to capture runoff, rainwater coming from the hillside,” Richard said.
He had a second goal in mind when he designed the ponds…