Despite some setbacks from weather, our work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Project (WSLPP) has seen significant progress in the past few months. Greenup's primary role has been excavating, processing, and stockpiling clay in two piles within the Bonnet Carre Spillway. By the end of the project, an estimated 1.5 million cubic yard of clay will be removed from the Spillway.
Construction manager Steven Keen provided these updates on the two stockpile sites:
"Stockpile 2 - PROJECT IS COMPLETE! Final testing of materials, coring samples of the stockpile, and as-builts are all that remain on this project. This is a major milestone as it was Greenup's first Corps of Engineers project of what is now three in total.
Stockpile 1 - This project is continuing to ramp up production, but stockpiling of clay is being hampered by rain. We are continuing to haul clay when the weather permits. We are also working on days we can't haul by excavating clay from the borrow pit in the Spillway and processing the material (allowing it to air dry). We are also improving the haul roads in the spillway and at the stockpile location in LaPlace. This project should be complete in mid-late spring of 2023."
Keen also reported progress on the La Reussite to Myrtle Grove Levee Plaquemines Parish project, a joint venture with Cajun Industries alongside the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project is a fixed-price construction contract to build hurricane protection structures and move levees and drainage canals in the New Orleans area.
"This large (4 mile long) project, over $100M, is moving out very quickly," Keen said, "We have already built, or improved, 8,000 LF of access roads so that equipment can safely access the project site, cleared vegetation from over half of the project footprint, excavated 100,000 CY of material for the drainage canal, and built over 100 LF of concrete pipe culverts to facilitate drainage. This project is ahead of the required completion date of June 2025."
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