Bioengineering Group

Algiers Lock

The Bioengineering Group was contracted by the US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District Protection Restoration Office (USACE-PRO) to perform feasibility-level designs for alternative methods of raising the existing hurricane protection to 100-year levels along the east side of the Algiers Canal between Highway 23 and the Algiers Lock. The East and West of Algiers Canal Project provided Standard More...

Bayou Dupre Sector Gate Control Structure - Reach LPV 144

The Bioengineering Group was contracted by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Protection Office (USACE-HPO) to perform professional services required to complete the design of the sector gate control structure, tie-ins within this project area, pontoon bridge structure, preparation of a Design Documentation Report (DDR), Plans and Specifications (P&S), and construction cost estimates for all measures. These final P&S More...

Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) Hurricane Protection Program Management

Bioengineering Group (BioGroup) was contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Hurricane Protection Office to perform all program and construction management services required to complete the largest civil works design-build project ever undertaken by the USACE to improve the Greater New Orleans hurricane protection infrastructure following the impacts of Hurricane Katrina. Additionally BioGroup was tasked to perform engineering More...

Inner Harbor Navigation Canal - NEPA Environmental Study

The Bioengineering Group was contracted by The US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District Hurricane Protection Office (USACE-HPO) to assist in achieving NEPA compliance for proposed hurricane protection options. The project was to evaluate alternatives and provide an improved 100-year level of hurricane protection that would reduce threats to life, health, and property posed by flooding from hurricanes and More...

Inner Harbor Navigation Canal - Reach 1 Safety Water Elevation Study

The Bioengineering Group was contracted by the US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District (USACE) to provide a report that presented an analysis of the flood protection walls and levees along the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC), the Gulf Intercoastal Waterway (GIWW), and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) for the reaches starting at the east side north end More...

Jefferson Parish Sector Gate South - Engineering Alternatives Report

The Bioengineering Group was contracted by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Protection Office (USACE-HPO) to perform all professional services required for the preparation of a Detailed Alternative Study Report. The location of the work is on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the Parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, and Plaquemines. The area impacts components of three subprojects: More...

Non-Federal Levee Hurricane Protection System

The project was located to the west of Hwy 23 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, stretching from Oakville to St. Jude. The purpose of the project was to provide a concept level evaluation of alternative alignments that could be used to support the analysis for, and preparation of, a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) and a Project Description Document (PDD). Preliminary More...

Plaquemine's Parish - Five Floodwalls

Plaquemines Parish is the southeastern-most Parish in Louisiana, running southeast of the city of New Orleans. The Plaquemines Parish Hurricane Protection System includes the levee and floodwalls along the Mississippi River, the hurricane levees and floodwalls along the bayous adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, and the associated pumping stations along both alignments. The purpose of the project was to More...

Plaquemine's Parish - ROW Stockpile Reconnaissance

The US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District Hurricane Protection Office (USACE-HPO) contracted with The Bioengineering Group to provide field reconnaissance of each project location from NOV (New Orleans to Venice) 01 - 16 in Plaquemines Parish, LA, and to identify potential stockpile locations within existing Right-of-Ways (ROW). The identified areas and Access Haul Routes were to be shown More...

St. Bernard Parish - Back Levee

St. Bernard Parish is protected by two levee systems, a federal levee (Chalmette Loop Levee) and a non-federal levee (Back Levee). Both levee systems were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The federal levee provides a continuous perimeter of protection around St. Bernard Parish, whereas the Back Levee is an inner levee that separates the inhabited areas from the adjacent bayous and More...

St. Bernard Parish - Hurricane Protection System (Chalmette Loop Levee) Engineering Alternatives Report

The majority of levees in St. Bernard Parish (located in southwestern Louisiana, east of and adjacent to New Orleans) were overtopped or breached during Hurricane Katrina. The St. Bernard Parish Hurricane Protection System consists of approximately 25 miles of levees and floodwalls between the Bayou Bienvenue Control Structure (LPV 144) and the Mississippi River at Caernarvon (Chalmette Loop - LPV More...

St. Bernard Parish - Quality Assurance Survey of LPV-148

The Bioengineering Group was contracted by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Protection Office (USACE-HPO) to perform Quality Assurance survey activities of the Chalmette Loop Levee Reach (LPV-148) in St. Bernard Parish, LA. LPV-148 is a levee segment located between Hwy 46 and Caernarvon Floodwall between Station 1118+00 and 1552+60. Two additional features are noted along this reach: St. More...