USACE personnel attended the second annual Terrebonne Coastal Day on June 15. Colonel Jones briefed sponsors and stakeholders from Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes on urgency and scope of construction on Morganza to the Gulf features. USACE Team members tended a booth where they answered questions on survey equipment, locations and schedules of construction.

Crews inspecting concrete canals along Gen. de Gaulle in Algiers as part of the SELA 72 Construction project

The West Shore Lake Pontchartrain project is located in southeast Louisiana on the east-bank of the Mississippi River in St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James parishes in southeast Louisiana. The West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Chief’s report was signed in June 2015 and the project was fully funded for design and construction in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. 100-year storm surge risk reduction will be achieved by a variety of structural and non-structural features including construction of over 18 miles of levees and floodwalls and two new 2,000 cfs pump stations. While these features will reduce risk from storm surge associated with tropical events, they do not specifically reduce risk of flooding from significant rainfall.

On December 9, 2022, the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, broke ground on the Humble Canal Floodgate Preload project in Montegut, Louisiana, part of the Morganza to the Gulf flood risk reduction system