LAFAYETTE PARISH, La. (KLFY)–Billie Goodman, a longtime homeowner on Crooked Creek is seeking help in an ongoing problem she said she has been battling in her yard with standing water.
“It’s very unsanitary. The smell I mean, we have neighbors that walk in the neighborhood and they kind of look at me like what you’re going to do about this and I’m like, I have reached out to people. I have tried getting in touch with somebody to see about this. I don’t like it. I know my neighbors don’t like it. So I just need some kind of solution,” Goodman said.
Goodman said sidewalks were installed on the first block of the subdivision on one side. Lafayette Consolidated Government Officials said a grant the Department of Transportation and Development receivedto improve the health of kids and the community by making walking and bicycling to school safer, easier and more enjoyable were the reason for the installation of the sidewalks along Crooked Creek. It is also near Ossun Elementary School which was one of the many schools who benefited from the project. The school is also near Goodman’s home…