Milton, Lafayette Parish
November 13, 2026
Lafayette Consolidated Government has received $22 million in reimbursement for the Homewood flood control project near Milton, officials announced Friday.
The payment follows $6.1 million reimbursed in November 2024. LCG attributed the additional recovery to legislative action this year after funding, permitting and contractual problems delayed the project.
Construction began in February 2022 and stopped in November 2023. The project includes about 118 acres of detention ponds on a 372 acre site, intended to improve stormwater management.
LCG says work on the Coulee Ile de Cannes portion was substantially completed in September. Remaining work is still ahead, not finished by Friday's announcement.
Officials plan to begin removing deactivated gas pipelines in December and finish that step during the first quarter of 2027. Construction on Ponds 1 and 2, including a Vermilion River connection, is expected to resume during the second or third quarter.