Corps postpones Plaquemines Parish public scoping meeting due to inclement weather

Published Nov. 9, 2009

New Orleans, LA - The public scoping meeting previously scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 at the Plaquemines Parish District 1 Council Office in Davant has been canceled due to Hurricane Ida.

The meeting will be rescheduled after the Thanksgiving holiday and will evaluate options for improving the New Orleans to Venice Hurricane Protection Project levees in Plaquemines Parish. The Federal levee project runs on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish from Phoenix to Bohemia, and on the west bank from St. Jude to Venice.

Questions or comments concerning benefits and impacts should be addressed to:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
c/o Joan Exnicios
P.O. Box 60267
New Orleans, LA 70160-0267
Phone: 504-862-1760
Fax: 504-862-2088

E-mail: MVNenvironmental@usace.army.mil.

For more information or to sign up to be on a meeting notification list please visit the following Web site: www.nolaenvironmental.gov or www.mvn.usace.army.mil .


Release no. 09-027