GONZALES — Frank Bonifay, owner of the defunct Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours, is suing Ascension Parish over two floating pumps parish drainage officials installed temporarily at the Frog Bayou floodgate on Bayou Manchac a little more than a year ago.

The rented pumps, which were removed several months after they were installed, prevented flooding of homes in the Bluff Swamp area of the Spanish Lake Basin after severe rains in December 2012 and January 2013, parish officials have said.

Use of temporary pumps at Frog Bayou during severe events also figures in the Ascension Parish drainage district’s long-term plans to improve standing drainage problems on Ascension’s side of the 13,000-acre Spanish Lake Basin.

Bonifay owns more than 1,200 acres in the Spanish Lake Basin and his property includes the Frog Bayou floodgate and Alligator Bayou floodgate, both of which are critical to draining the entire basin, according to parish officials.

SRC:  http://theadvocate.com/news/8506014-123/lawsuit-filed-over-floodgate-pumps