ENR Texas & Louisiana's 2011 Owner of the Year: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By June 1, when the 2011 hurricane season starts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its industry and municipal partners will have delivered the bulk of a $14.6-billion program to provide New Orleans and surrounding parishes with what they say will be the best flood protection ever. The 350-mile Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System consists of reinforced levees, concrete floodwalls, surge barriers, pump stations and floodgates that will provide 100-year protections—defenses against a storm with a 1% chance of occurring in any given year.
Above:Deep Soil Mixing
Contractors are performing a deepsoil- mixing project (left) to stabilize soil enough to widen and heighten a 5.3-mile stretch of earthen levees in eastern New Orleans. It is the world�s largest deep-soil-mixing project.