Undocumented underground debris fields at a Gulf of Mexico port project are at the heart of a contractor’s nearly $50-million federal lawsuit against the Mississippi Development Authority and eight engineering and construction consultants.
Southern Industrial Contractors (SIC), Rayville, La., claims in its July 7 filing to the U.S. District Court for southern Mississippi that the defendants did not fulfill their responsibility to provide accurate construction documents for a $47-million transit shed at the Port of Gulfport awarded to the firm in 2014 as part of a federally backed program to restore the port after Hurricane Katrina damage.