The safety and health of our contract workers is of the utmost importance as we continue with infrastructure projects across the city. We are encouraging our contractors to implement the below guidelines consistent with CDC recommendations at jobsites throughout the City.

In June 2020, City of New Orleans’ archaeologist Michael Godzinski discovered  a shell midden during monitoring of construction crews excavating a water line as part of the $3.3M Lake Vista Group A infrastructure improvement project. The excavation yielded prehistoric ceramic, colonial ceramic and glass along with 19th-century ceramic and glass located in a bed of Rangia Cuneata shells, the signature for a prehistoric shell midden in southeast Louisiana. Shell middens are described as a “mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement.”