Funding secured for phase I of the Houma Navigation Canal Lock Complex February 10, 2021, posted by Zlatan Hrvacevic
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has been awarded $26.7 million to fund the dredging of 1.2 million cubic yards of earthen material to begin construction of a lock complex adjacent to the Bubba Dove Floodgate on the Houma Navigation Canal (HNC).
The grant subrecipient, Terrebonne Levee & Conservation District, will perform the dredging activities.
The grant award comes from the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (RESTORE Council). The Council previously awarded CPRA $18.5 million for engineering and design of the project. The State has allocated $366 million in RESTORE Act Spill Impact Component funds to this project over a 15-year period.
January 29, 2021 By Frank McCormack
In the final days of the Trump administration, residents of southeast Louisiana received a parting gift from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the form of “new start” money for a $3 billion levee project called “Morganza-to-the-Gulf.”
“Today we received confirmation that the Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection project will receive $12.46 million in New Start construction funding,” Chip Kline, chairman of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA), said in a statement January 19. “This marks the first time the federal government has appropriated funds through a Corps of Engineers Work Plan toward this critically important project. To date, state and local governments have invested more than $600 million toward this levee system.”
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Held for the Petit Caillou Lock Structure
January 28, 2021
A ribbon cutting ceremony was held at the Little Caillou Lock Structure in Chauvin to mark the end of the construction project and introduction of the new lock system in Bayou Petit Caillou.
“Terrebonne Parish funded and built this lock system, but it will be operated by the Terrebonne Parish Levee District. I want to thank Reggie Dupre, Tony Alford and all the board members for taking the system over. They are going to operate it as part of the entire system, including the Morganza system. This lock system is not really on the Morganza system, but Terrebonne Bayou and Montegut are actually on the system, so they work hand in hand,” said Parish President Gordon Dove.
Morganza-to-the-Gulf gets $12M in New Start Construction funding January 20, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
Congressman Garret Graves and House Republican Whip Steve Scalise announced yesterday that the Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection project will receive $12.46 million in New Start Construction funding from USACE.
The funding will increase flood protection and further protect economic activity in South Louisiana.
“This marks the first time the federal government has appropriated funds through a Corps of Engineers work plan toward this critically important project. To date, state and local governments have invested more than $600M toward this levee system,” said CPRA Chairman
Chip Kline.
“Over the past three years, CPRA, along with local levee districts, led the effort to reduce the overall cost of the project by several billion dollars while still providing the same level of protection for Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes
Mon December 21, 2020 - Southeast Edition
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The Houma Navigational Canal Project is advancing to construction using an alternative financing plan.
Louisiana officials have announced that construction on a $366 million flood protection project will begin using an alternative financing plan approved by the state legislature earlier this year.
The
Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) said Dec. 9 that the plan will be used for the flood-protection lock project in the
Houma Navigation Canal (HNC). It will allow the agency to incur debt or issue bonds to pay for projects. The lock will play a critical role in Terrebonne Parish s hurricane protection system.