Our work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Project, awarded in January 2020, has seen significant progress in the past few months. Greenup’s primary role in the project has been excavating, processing, and stockpiling clay into two stockpiles inside the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The clay will be used to construct 17.5 miles of a levee system that offers a 100-year level risk reduction to the area between the Bonnet Carre spillway and Garyville. Greenup will have removed 1.5 million cubic yards of clay from the Spillway by the end of the project.
The access road off Airline Highway in LaPlace that extends through the marsh to the prospective levee construction site has been completed, which means the Corps of Engineers can start awarding levee construction contracts. We are also excavating clay from the Bonnet Carre Spillway for future levee construction and hauling it in dump trucks to the assigned area, Stockpile 1, located near Airline Highway. Although weather conditions could always be better, we have successfully stockpiled nearly 40,000 cubic yards of clay out of the 1,000,000 expected. We predict productivity will increase considerably as the weather grows warmer. Completion of operations at Stockpile 1 is expected in the Spring/Summer of 2023.
In addition, we continue to excavate clay material for future levee projects from the borrow pit in the Spillway and transport it to designated area "Stockpile 2." We have successfully stockpiled over half of the 500,000 cubic yards of clay required. We also expect activity to increase here as the weather improves. Completion of operations at Stockpile 2 is expected in the summer of 2022.
About Greenup Industries
Based in Kenner, Greenup Industries offers contracting and specialized construction services for industrial, commercial, and municipal clients. The company’s proprietary software, the Greenup Tracker, can connect third-party vendors with facilities that need painters, plumbers, groundskeepers, carpenters, etc.
If you would like more information on this project, please get in touch with Greenup Industries at 225.283.4843 or info@greenupind.com.