NEW ORLEANS -The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded a contract to construct the pump station for the Harahan Pump to River project on the east bank of Jefferson Parish. The project, which
is part of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Damage Reduction Project (SELA), will reduce the risk of damages from a rainfall event that has a chance of occurring once in every ten years.
On September 21, 2011, the Corps awarded a $29.4 million contract to Louisiana-based M.R. Pittman Group, LLC. The approximately 45-month contract calls for constructing a new 1,200 cubic feet per second pumping station near Dickory Avenue and Mounes Street (see below map). A notice to proceed will be issued within the next month and construction should be completed in the summer of 2015. This is the first of five remaining projects to complete the entire Harahan Pump to River. The design of the remaining four projects will be wrapped up by the end of 2012, and all construction will be completed in 2017.
A large portion of the work to improve major drainage canals and pump stations on both the east and west banks of Jefferson Parish is complete. A total of forty six SELA contracts have been awarded to date, with work completed on forty of those projects. All scheduled SELA work in Jefferson Parish should be finished in 2017.
Release no. 11-017