Cassidy Announces $643.4M from Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill for Louisiana Coastal, Waterway and Flood Projects AND $2B in Disaster Relief

Source: United States Senator for Louisiana Bill Cassidy

Project Name

Description from Army Corps of Engineers

Amount

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN, FLOODWAY SYSTEM, LA

Funds will be used to complete construction of the project.

$77,600,000

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN, LA

Funds will be used to complete the construction of the Charenton Floodgate and construct priority levee enlargements, address critical seepage remediation, and floodwall stability for Bayou Larose; Alabama Bayou; W121; E-73.3-E74; E-52; E-58; W-124; and W-99.

$85,000,000

BAYOU SEGNETTE WATERWAY, LA

Dredging and removal of obstruction in response to Hurricane Ida.

$3,510,000

CHANNEL IMPROVEMENT, REVETMENTS, AR, IL, KY, LA, MS, MO & TN

Funds will be used to construct new revetments and extensions of existing revetments using Articulated Concrete Mattress and/or stone berms at Tropical Bend River Mile (RM) 31; Burnside RM 43-R; Point Michel RM 44-R; Myrtle Grove RM 59-R (two locations); Good Hope RM 61; Carrollton RM 68; Third District Reach RM 71 (three locations); English Turn RM 78-R; Scarsdale RM 80 (two locations); Linwood RM 82; Harlem RM 88; Gravolet RM 90 (two locations); Neptune RM 97 (three locations); Greenville RM 100-R; Carrollton RM 104-L; Richbend RM 157-R; and Buras RM 297.

$120,543,000

COMITE RIVER DIVERSION*

Construct resiliency features including reinforcing the channel banks rip rap, fabric, and bedding; and armoring along rock chutes.

$125,000,000

GRAND ISLE AND VICINITY, LA

ADDITIONAL DAMAGES DUES TO HURRICANE IDA – PIR UNDERWAY IN ADDITION TO FOLLOWING. The previously proposed repairs include clearing and grubbing, excavation, repairs to clay-filled geotextile, repairs to sand-filled geotextile tube, repairs to a timber dune crossing, placement of a sand-filled geotextile tube with scour apron and anchor tubes on top of the existing clay-filled geotextile tube, re-covering the repaired and newly placed geotextile tubes, dune plantings and sand fencing. In addition, a 750 foot reach of dune section at Boudreaux lane will be restored and brought up to grade.

TBD

GRAND ISLE AND VICINITY, LA

This work package is for E&D of repairs that include clearing and grubbing, excavation, repairs to clay-filled geotextile, repairs to sand-filled geotextile tube, repairs to a timber dune crossing, placement of a sand-filled geotextile tube with scour apron and anchor tubes on top of the existing clay-filled geotextile tube, recovering the repaired and newly placed geotextile tubes, dune plantings and sand fencing. In addition, a 750 foot reach of dune section at Boudreaux lane will be restored and brought up to grade.

$798,000

GULF INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY, LA

Repair or Replace equipment shed roof, 4 automatic gate sensors, water damaged ceiling tile, PLC wiring at Harvey Lock. Repair or Replace 7 lights on 2 high masts, 2 high mast light lifting mechanisms, damaged electrical equipment on 2 high mast lights, lockmaster office roof, life ring holders, tin covering over air compressors, siding on operator shacks and awnings at Algiers Lock. Repair or Replace chamber wall lights, roofs, soffit, insulation and ceiling tiles, and reverse head gate electric motor at Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock. All repairs to these locks are in response to Hurricane Ida.

$340,000

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND VICINITY, LA (HURRICANE PROTECTION)

Construction – Repair erosion of approximately 7,000CY of wave berm clay spanning 8,100 LF of levee along the Jefferson Parish Lake Pontchartrain Lakefront.

$4,750,000

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN AND VICINITY, LA (HURRICANE PROTECTION)

E&D – Repair erosion of approximately 7,000CY of wave berm clay spanning 8,100 LF of levee along the Jefferson Parish Lake Pontchartrain Lakefront.

$250,000

LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY LEVEE, LA

FCCE Class 1 – Construction and E&D – Repairs to the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola Ring Levee).

$793,000

MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEES, AR, IL, KY, LA, MS, MO & TN

Funds will be used to construct priority levee enlargements and to address critical seepage remediation at Dugas to Celotex, RM 100.4-R; Moreville-Black Hawk Items 326-R, 348-R, 351-R, 327-R, 341-R, and 345-R; Addis RM 223-R; Ama, RM 113.5-R; Bayou Goula to Alhambra RM 194.5R; Belmont RM 152-L; Ben Hur Road RM 217.6-L; Carville RM 189-L; Lower & Upper 5th RM 317-R; Fancy Point RM 242.5-R; Gramercy Mt. Airy RM 144-L; IHNC Lock Forebay RM 92.6L; Laplace RM 133-L; Marchand RM 181-L; Plaquemine-Reveille RM 206.7-R; Point Pleasant-Yucatan Items 409 and 411-R; Port Allen Lock RM 228-R and RM 231-R; Romeville – College Point RM 156-8L; Smithfield RM 246-R; Smoke Bend RM 178-R; St. Joseph – Waterproof Item 393-R; Thomas Point RM 240.3R; Upper Lake Concordia-Vidalia Items 366-R, 367-R, 368-R, and 370-R; Welham Plantation RM 154-L; and Yucatan- Lake Bruin Item 398-R Phase II.

$232,425,000

MISSISSIPPI RIVER, BATON ROUGE TO THE GULF OF MEXICO, LA

Repair or Replace Down fences, Swing Gates, Foreshore Rock, Wall, Ceiling, Floor, Roof, Temporary Trailers, VHF antenna, Safety light, and Mold remediation at Venice Suboffice. Dredge Navigation channel at South Pass and Place Jetty stone at South and Southwest Pass. All repairs are in response to Hurricane Ida.

$27,116,000

NEW ORLEANS TO VENICE (NOV) PROJECT

PIR Underway – TBD

TBD

NEW ORLEANS TO VENICE, LA (HURRICANE PROTECTION)

Complete authorized work on the east and west banks of Plaquemines Parish by replacing or modifying the flood and storm damage risk reduction levee infrastructure to the 50-year Level or Risk Reduction (LORR).

$783,000,000

SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA, LA

Within the Algiers Sub-basin, complete design of three features of the project and initiate construction of one feature of the project.

$94,300,000

WEST BANK AND VICINITY (WBV) PROJECT

PIR Underway – TBD

TBD

WEST SHORE, LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN, LA*

Complete authorized work on the east and west banks of Plaquemines Parish by replacing or modifying the flood and storm damage risk reduction levee infrastructure to the 50-year Level or Risk Reduction (LORR).

$450,000,000

$2,005,425,000

*Funds will be allocated upon completion of a study funded in the Investigations Acct if the study recommends a construction project with a Federal interest.