A flooding Wards Creek wrecked people’s lives. Here’s what Baton Rouge is doing about it

The part of the creek near the Siegen Lane overpass is a “choke point” for stormwater, which backs up there and floods areas upstream. Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s administration will use a $1.8 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to widen the creek, hopefully easing the choke point.