In a few weeks, workers will begin to dismantle the temporary pumps and floodgates that have been in place along the New Orleans lakefront since the year after Hurricane Katrina.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in October awarded a $17 million contract to M.R. Pittman Group LLC of St. Rose, La., to remove the structures, and work is scheduled to get under way in December and be complete by summer 2020.