– A judge oversaw a couple of weeks ago the final hearing to allow the St. Martin Parish government expropriate property for servitude rights and the passageway for water and electric utilities to reach the site of a new water well that will be used for the St. Martin Parish Consolidated Water District No. 4 to connect to the main water lines that will service customers in the new water district.
St. Martin Parish President Pete Delcambre said that 30 people had claim to the property in question between Aubrey Ozenne Road and the site of the proposed new well, and that every person who could be found was notified, and the appraised number for the properties was divided up by the number of people with claims to the properties. Some properties have multiple owners after inheriting the land. In some cases because of inheritance succession, there could be many owners listed for one property.
The parish is not expropriating plots of land, Delcambre stressed, only the servitude rights to place electric and water utility lines.
