Recent rainfall in the parish is an annoyance for some people within Concordia Parish but police jury officials said Friday drainage is still OK.

Clara Bass said she called the police jury office Friday morning to report that her house at 162 Levens Addition Road, Ferriday, had two inches of water in it after the rain Thursday night.

Bass said the water flooded two rooms of her three-bedroom house.

She said the cause of the flooding was a clogged culvert near her home.

“I don’t think the police jury is doing their job because (the ditch) down below me toward the canal that the water goes into is not flooded,” Bass said.

Bass said she soaked up the water in her house, but this was the fourth time in the past three or four years water has flooded her house.

Police Jury President Melvin Ferrington said Friday he was aware of the problem, but there was very little he could do about it.

“All of our people are off today, and I can’t reach any of them by telephone,” Ferrington said.

But Ferrington said ditches in the parish are holding water very well. More than two inches of rain fell in approximately a 24 hour period in the area.

Both major drainage ditches in the parish, Cocodrie Bayou and the Vidalia Canal, were full, but water levels are going down, he said.

Most of the drainage problems happen in rural subdivisions of the parish, where trash and leaves stop up culverts, Secretary Russell Wagoner said Friday.

He said he received a call Thursday from Bass and another about flooding on Smart Lane off Doty Road in Ferriday.

Ferrington said people in the parish could prevent flooding by maintaining the ditches near their property.

“If people would rake the leaves out of the ditches we wouldn’t have to unplug the culverts,” Ferrington said.

But Ferrington said he would do everything he could to help Bass.

“If all works out I will have someone out there in the morning with a shovel and a rake to fix the problem,” Ferrington said.