New Orleans Levees Need to be Raised 11-ft

The US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans district is looking for an unprecedented 100 Million Cubic Yards of Clay to be used for reconstruction and fortification of levees in the New Orleans area. Once borrow sources are approved by the Corps, they will likely be contracting directly with a USACOE contractor constructing one of the projects associated with New Orleans Hurricane Protection System.  Material specs are USCS classification of CL or CH, <35% sand, PI < 10, organic content < 9%.

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The American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE sent a cease and desist letter to the owner of the Levees.Org website notifying them to remove a video spoof of its post-Katrina levee inspection. Of course, through the wonders of the internet, Levees.org removed it from YouTube, but someone else posted it again. And because of all the fuss, it’s more popular than it would have been otherwise with over 16,000 views at the time of this post. Click through to watch it.

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GRL Engineers are providing wave equation analysis, dynamic pile testing (PDA), and CAPWAP analysis for a US Army Corps flood control and storm surge project on the New Jersey coast. They have been involved in […]