Pontchartrain Partners provided project management to the nation’s largest sector gate, the nearly $1 billion WCC project will also have the world’s largest drainage pump station that is capable of pumping 8.6 million gallons per second, floodwalls that abut a 404c environmentally-sensitive area, sluice gates, foreshore protection and an earthen levee. The project also includes dredging of the Algiers Canal, beneficial use of the dredged material, and realignment of a portion of Bayou Road in Plaquemines Parish.
Built by King Fabrication of Houston, Texas, the pair of sector gates at 750 tons each was transported by barge along the GIWW to the WCC site. The 225-foot-wide gate is tied into a pumping station and floodwalls to defend against a 100-year storm surge. |
