ST. GABRIEL - A wastewater treatment company with a facility in Iberville Parish responds to 2 On Your Side after a resident reached out for help.

Quinton Picard purchased a home in the Meadow Oaks subdivision in St. Gabriel in 2018. The house backs up to the wastewater treatment facility across the pond. Then, there were far fewer homes, and he enjoyed the sounds of nature in his backyard. Those sounds vanished when more homes were built and came online to the neighborhood's wastewater treatment plant.

"The plant would run maybe 10 minutes every hour, which was noticeable but bearable, and didn't interfere with my sleep or usage of the backyard much," said Picard.

Originally owned by Ascension Wastewater, Picard says that when he called to lodge a complaint, he never got past the admin

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