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Project Manager Wayne Jones Earned High Marks During Delivery of Major Storm Surge Defense Structure in New Orleans
2013-01-23 23:01:30| ENR.com: Headline News
The largest chunk of construction in the $14.6-billion ring of storm-surge defenses built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers around post-Katrina New Orleans is a $1-billion concrete wall across a marshy bay on the eastern flank of the city. The wall is the backbone of a huge barrier designed to hold back a 26-ft hurricane-induced surge. Wags already have dubbed it "the Great Wall of New Orleans."
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