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Coming Soon: Traffic Relief for the Capital Region
Work Begins to Reconfigure Washington St Exit -
Graves, Transportation Committee Advance Water Infrastructure Package
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) authorizes critical improvements to America's water related infrastructure. Watch a short video to learn why WRDA is important to Louisiana and the nation. -
UPDATE: Duplication of Benefits
Graves's Bill to Fix Duplication of Benefits Clears House a Second Time -
HISTORIC PROGRESS | Congressman Graves, delegation, governor secure additional $1.2 billion in grant funding for hazard mitigation
The federal government will allocate an additional $1.213 billion in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for hazard mitigation projects in parishes impacted by the 2016 floods.
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LAPLACE, La. (LOCAL 33) (FOX 44) - An 18-mile levee to protect land near Lake Pontchartrain from storm surges could be finished by the 2023 hurricane season, an Army Corps of Engineers district commander said Monday.
The 18-mile, $760 million West Shore Lake Pontchartrain hurricane levee could be under construction by early 2021 and could be completed by mid-2023, in time for that year's hurricane season, the commander of the Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District office said Monday.
DENHAM SPRINGS, LA (WAFB) -
On the two-year anniversary of the historic flood, the Livingston Parish School System is moving on to its final phase of flood recovery with the destruction of a school that couldn’t be repaired.
Officials said Monday that they are aiming to complete construction of a new federal levee system protecting LaPlace and surrounding areas by 2023, the first concrete timeline for a project originally conceived nearly 50 years ago.
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