Posted on December 9, 2024
BATON ROUGE — The University Lakes restoration project team held an open house to recap the past year and what’s coming up next for the restoration.
The team has been dredging City Park Lake and Lake Erie as part of phase one, while also deepening College Lake and the northern half of University Lake as part of phase 2A next year, with improvement to May Street to follow that.
Phase 2B, which will begin next year, will include dredging the southern half of University Lake and the team expects to be completed with this phase at the end of 2025.
Project Manager Mark Goodson says the restoration has already transformed some of the lakes.
“If you go back and look what the lake looks like even a year ago or even a year and a half, two years ago, those that have been dredged look so much healthier,” Goodson said.
Goodson said he hopes the improvements have offset the inconvenience it has caused for many residents in the area.
“The benefits, some of them you can see today, so I hope that some are excited to see a happy lake system,” Goodson said.
Goodson told WBRZ that all the funded work should be completed by December 2026. For more information, click here.
