84-inch Spiral-Welded Steel Pipe Installed To Protect New Orleans Owner and Engineer: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District Project Summary: The Harahan Pump to the River Project was part of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control project, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created more than 10 years ago to control ?ooding in Je?erson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes. The $8.5 million pipe installation is part of a $105 million program that will eventually entail a large pump station at the low point of one of the city’s drainage canal systems. The pump station will be used to pump ?ood water, when necessary, through triple-barrel 84-inch steel pipe line over the levee and into the Mississippi River. The Harahan work was particularly di?cult because of serious safety issues

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