BATON ROUGE – On Tuesday, WBRZ reported that some businesses on Kalurah Street near the Perkins Road overpass had flooded several times recently during rain events. It’s something they haven’t experienced before and question drainage along the I-10 widening project.
On Wednesday, 2 On Your Side met with a homeowner in that area on Baywood Avenue who is going through the same thing. A large workshop behind his home backs up to the construction project. Like many properties in Baton Rouge and the surrounding area, Dawson Ellis flooded in 2016. Years went by, and things were fine. In December 2024, his property started flooding repeatedly. It’s now flooded at least six or seven times, and Ellis has complained each time to the contractor, Kiewit-Boh.
“It just keeps getting worse and worse,” said Ellis…