NEW ORLEANS -The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $2.2 million contract to Louisiana-based Phylway Constructors LLC to build seepage cutoff measures along the Lake Pontchartrain levee from Franklin Ave to the Seabrook Floodgate Complex. Construction is expected to be complete by late summer 2013.
Construction of the “Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity Hurricane Protection Levee, Orleans Metro Seepage Cutoff, Seabrook to Franklin Ave” will consist of driving 20 ft long sheet pile at the flood side toe of the levee from Franklin Ave to the vehicle floodgate near the former site of Camp Leroy Johnson. Once the sheet pile is driven, a clay cap will be placed over the sheet pile and adjacent to the flood side levee slope.
Release no. 13-007