The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, recently awarded a contract for constructing the tenth levee reach and a pipeline crossing floodwall on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project. WSLP contract 109 will construct approximately 1 mile of the 18.5-mile-long levee system that will provide 100-year level risk reduction to the area primarily in St. John the Baptist, St. James, and St. Charles Parish.
The contract for WSLP-109 was awarded on September 25, 2024, to Cycle Construction Company, LLC, of Kenner, LA. This section of the levee is approximately 1 mile long. The contract at award is $23,275,555.00. Work will be performed in St. John Parish and St. Charles Parish. The levee elevation will be 8.6 feet.
“In awarding the last contract of the 2024 fiscal year for the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane and Storm Reduction Project we are excited to continue pushing forward on delivering a 1-percent level of storm surge risk reduction to the people that live and work in the three-parish area in southeast Louisiana,” said Col. Cullen Jones, New Orleans District Commander.
The West Shore Lake Pontchartrain project will achieve 100-year storm surge risk reduction by a variety of structural and non-structural features to include: levees, floodwalls, and pumps. While these features will reduce risk from storm surge associated with tropical events, they do not specifically reduce risk of flooding from significant rainfall. The project design team continues to work with the Non-Federal sponsor to acquire Rights of Entry (ROE) and coordinate with utilities and pipelines within the project footprint. Contracts completed include test sections, clay stockpiles, sand stockpiles, sand placement, and access road construction. For more information on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain project:
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Website: https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/About/Projects/BBA-2018/West-Shore-Lake-Pontchartrain/
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Release no. 24-048