ST. FRANCISVILLE - After being awarded state-issued grants, Cablesouth Media and Swyft Fiber have been busy expanding internet services to rural areas of the country, including in West Feliciana Parish. In May, Parish President Kenny Havard issued the company a cease-and-desist letter over repeated damage to parish water lines.

"We just can't have three water breaks a day, and that's what they were doing," said Havard.

Parish President Havard says since the project's start, the parish has responded to at least 40 water line breaks, 20 of which have been documented. He says the cease and desist is to prevent the company from doing any more damage to the water system, which has prompted six boil water advisories in the parish. Havard says the repairs are draining the parish's "rainy day" f

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