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Article: Shaw Reaches Major Milestone on World's Largest Surge Barrier in New Orleans
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- Manufacturing Close-Up
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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Just 10 months since breaking ground on the Inner Harbor
Navigation Canal (IHNC) Surge Barrier project, The Shaw Group Inc.
said it has completed a phase of construction on Lake Borgne near
New Orleans, driving the final 66-inch diameter, 144-foot-long
vertical pile on the foundation of the world's largest storm surge
barrier on Oct. 21.
The two-mile floodwall, designed as part of a system to provide
100-year-level storm protection to the city and surrounding areas,
extends from the north of Louisiana's Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to
the south of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO).
In April 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded
Shaw the project management, design and ...