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  • West Bank and Vicinity Future Levee Lifts Project Agreement Signed

    Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board of Louisiana, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West, the Lafourche Basin Conservation Levee and Drainage District, and the Plaquemines Parish Government signed an agreement today to begin preconstruction engineering and design phase for upcoming levee lifts of the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System’s West Bank and Vicinity Future Levee Lifts project.

  • Corps seeks public comments on draft environmental assessment and draft FONSI

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is requesting public comments for the proposed mitigation plan for the West Bank and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project through July 22, 2024.

  • HSDRRS levee lift General Re-evaluation Reports signed

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Director of Civil Works recently signed the final Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity and West Bank & Vicinity General Re-evaluation Reports.

  • HSDRRS levee lift Final General Re-evaluation Reports available for review

    The New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the final version of the Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity and West Bank & Vicinity General Re-evaluation Reports for a 30-day review beginning Aug. 6, 2021.

  • HSDRRS levee lift Draft General Re-evaluation Reports public meetings scheduled

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled two public meetings regarding the release the of Draft General Re-evaluation Reports for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (LPV) and West Bank and Vicinity (WBV), which comprise the post-Katrina risk reduction system.

  • HSDRRS levee lift Draft General Re-evaluation Reports available for review

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its Draft General Re-evaluation Reports for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (LPV) and West Bank and Vicinity (WBV), which comprise the post-Katrina risk reduction system. The Notice of Availability will be published in the Federal Register Friday, beginning a 55-day public review and comment period. The purpose of the two General Re-Evaluation Reports is to evaluate whether federal participation to carry out measures that address consolidation, settlement, subsidence, sea level rise, and new datum that would sustain the Hurricane and Storm Damage and Risk Reduction System are economically justified, technically feasible and environmentally acceptable.