Work is wrapping up on the widening of 21 miles of Brays Bayou in Houston, one of 75 individual project components of a $480-million cooperative project between the Harris County Flood Control District and the Corps of Engineers to reduce flooding in the watershed.

Approval for $2.5 billion oil terminal on the lower Mississippi River is contingent on study findings.

The second of two major sediment diversion projects in Plaquemines Parish, La., is closer to construction following the naming of a contractor to build the $700-million structure that will use mud from the bottom of the Mississippi River to help rebuild the state’s disappearing wetlands.

Dodge offers data on projected 2019 construction starts in the Austin area.

Updates about construction professionals in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.

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