CBY Wins $675m US Army Corp Contract

The US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $675m contract to CBY Design Builders to design and build permanent pumping stations at the Lake Pontchartrain entrances of the 17th Street, London Avenue and Orleans Avenue canals in New Orleans, US.

On completion, the three temporary gates and pump stations currently protecting the canals from storm surges will be dismantled.

The new stations will consist of combined gates and pumps that will be operated during hurricanes in tandem with the existing interior pump stations.

The stations will block surges from entering the canals and pump rainwater from the canals into Lake Pontchartrain.

The Orleans Avenue station will have capacity to pump 2,700 cubic feet of water per second, and the London Avenue station will pump between 8,000 and 9,000 cubic feet per second, according to nola.com.