A $237.7 million plan to deepen the main channel of the Mississippi River to 50 feet from Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle earlier this month - a recommendation of approval by the Army Corps of Engineers senior civil engineer. The decision was praised Friday (Aug. 17) by Gov. John Bel Edwards, members of the state's Congressional delegation, and… Read more »
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 $760 million West Shore Hurricane Protection Project will stretch from the Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish to the Hope Canal in St. John the Baptist Parish.… Read more »
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.
"It's very common for projects to get just a small trickle of funding year after year and to take a very long… Read more »
LAPLACE, LA (WVUE) - Local and federal officials gathered Monday to celebrate a major milestone in securing full funding for long-awaited hurricane and flood protection for the River Parishes area. Few can forget the catastrophic flooding that occurred in August 2012 when Hurricane Isaac swelled the waters of Lake Pontchartrain causing a huge storm surge that invaded nearby… Read more »
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.
The demolition and therefore, rebuilding process, of Denham Springs Elementary has begun. Educators, along with state, federal, and parish leaders gathered at the… Read more »
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. St. John the Baptist Parish President Natalie Robottom briefed the media on the $760 million project Monday, joined by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves and Col. Michael… Read more »
ammie Angel and her husband scrambled to raise the furniture in their home and evacuate at 3 a.m. on Aug. 14, 2016.The couple had lived in their suburban Baton Rouge home for 25 years and never imagined that nearly three feet of water would swamp most of their possessions, costing them $100,000 in damages and devastating the surrounding area during historic flooding across parts of south… Read more »
Desperate for affordable fixes to daily traffic problems near the Interstate 10 Mississippi River bridge, Gov. John Bel Edwards and other state, federal and local officials Monday broke ground on a "game changer" project touted as a way to make life easier for motorists.The $8.8 million plan will create a new, Terrace Avenue exit left off Interstate 110 South.Doing so, officials said,… Read more »
Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana), Governor John Bel Edwards, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson and other state leaders marked the beginning of construction today on a solution to the Capital Region's traffic bottleneck at the I-10 Washington St. Exit. The "I-110 Interchange Modification Project at Terrace Ave" is designed to… Read more »
Completion on the relocation of power lines and property acquisition will top the work order list for the construction of the Comite River Diversion Canal, officials from the project task force said in a meeting Tuesday.The meeting at the State Capitol marked the first since an announcement that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers committed $343 million for completion of the long-awaited… Read more »
