La. firm Lake Pontchartrain pact

Crosby Dredging of Galliano, La., was awarded a $13,126,775 firm-fixed-price contract for wetland restoration in existing shallow open water via borrow dredging from a designated borrow pit within Lake Pontchartrain. Both bottomland hardwood-wet and marsh platforms will be constructed. The work requires retention dike construction, board road placement, and a jack-and-bore effort to provide the dredge disposal pipeline access to the construction site. Work will be performed in Lacombe, La., with an estimated completion date of Feb. 28, 2018. Army Corps of Engineers of New Orleans is the contracting activity. (Source: DOD 11/18/16)