LEAAF Environmental Consultants finished hazardous material remediation at Saratoga Square in order to prepare it to be used as a 1-million-gallon water detention site as part of the massive DPS01 Watershed Project.
The consultants removed several tons of concrete, tested and sifted through more than 800 tons of soil, tested and removed liquid drums on the site all while monitoring the air for the release of hazardous material. This remediation work is a pre-cursor to the $50M DPS01 project that includes nine New Orleans neighborhoods: Broadmoor, Central City, Garden District, Lower Garden District, Irish Channel, St. Thomas Development, Touro, East Riverside, and Milan. These neighborhoods, located between the Central Business District and Uptown, are within the Drainage Pump Station 1 (DPS 01) drainage district. Properties in these neighborhoods experience frequent localized flooding and repetitive losses due to regular weather events.
The goals for the project include:
- Increasing drainage to reduce flooding;
- Utilizing green infrastructure to slow, retain, and absorb storm water;
- Beautifying with green areas;
- Replenishing groundwater; and
- Storing rainwater underground.
View the pre-construction public meeting presentation here.
For more information about this project and other upcoming work, please visit Roadwork.nola.gov or call 504.658.ROAD (7623).