Capital Region industrial plants and the companies that service them were hard hit by losses—not to infrastructure, but to employees

Epic Piping’s new 268,000-square-foot facility in Livingston Parish, which opened in July, was among the industrial facilities in the Capital Region that avoided taking on water during flooding. Photography courtesy Epic Piping The area’s massive industrial infrastructure weathered the historic floods relatively unscathed. The refineries and petrochemical plants along the river are built to withstand