The Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (Sec 533).

PROJECT:

The project will provide protection to the urban area east of the Harvey Canal on the Westbank of the Mississippi River in the Vicinity of New Orleans in Jefferson, Orleans, and Plaquemines Parishes. The project consists of a sector floodgate in the Harvey Canal below Lapalco Blvd, and about 23 miles of levees, and 2 miles of floodwalls from the structure southward along the east bank of the Harvey Canal to the Algiers Canal, then northeast along the north bank of the Algiers Canal to the existing Algiers Lock, then southwest along the south bank of the Algiers Canal to the Hero Canal, then southeast bank of the Hero Canal to the Mississippi River Levee and then around the Oakville Subdivision. Both portions of the Harvey and Algiers Canals involved in the project are part of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW).

LOCAL COOPERATION:

A Project Cooperation Agreement (PCA) is being prepared and will be forwarded to Division and Headquarters by the end of FY 98.

PROGRESS:

Design has begun but construction will not begin without an executed Project Cooperation Agreement. This project is expected to be complete by 2011.

COST:

$184,000,000.00 ($120,000,000.00 Federal and $64,000,000.00 Non-Federal).