Landowner allows pipeline access, blames work for property flooding [Video]

ZACHARY – A property owner living a few hundred feet away from the Comite Diversion Canal project says he’s locked into a deal that’s causing him to flood. After his concerns were ignored, he contacted 2 On Your Side.

When Jimmy Pigrenet bought his property on Old Baker Road 15 years ago, he says he had no idea what was coming. Several years ago he signed a deal giving a company permission to access his land to move a Shell Oil pipeline to make way for the Comite Diversion Canal. A new access point is being built right next to his house and he says it’s been a “total nightmare.”

“They just do what they want and don’t worry about the landowners next to them,” Pigrenet said.

The contracted company built a road to access the pipeline. It snakes through his property and alongside it.

“They put a dirt road …