08/23/2024 | Press release | Archived content
August 23, 2024 | From City of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - The City of New Orleans today announced that starting 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 26 through Tuesday, Sept. 3, Department of Public Works (DPW) construction contractor Command Construction Industries, LLC will begin excavation of the road and installing road base as well as the 5" binder course on N. Villere Street. This work will require temporary lane closures of North-bound/Lake-bound lanes of St. Roch Avenue at N. Villere Street. During this time, sections of the North-bound parking lane will also be closed.
Signage and traffic control measures, such as barrels and fencing, will be onsite to direct drivers and pedestrians. Residents are asked to move all vehicles off the street before Monday, Aug. 26 and to adhere to no parking signage on the streets. Vehicles parked in these zones will be ticketed and towed. This work is expected to be completed by the end of the day on Tuesday, Sept. 3, unless another notice is issued extending the closure.
This temporary disruption of services is part of the $18.5 million St. Roch Drainage Upgrades joint infrastructure project with DPW and Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans.
Once complete, residents will experience an overall improved quality of life as the project will improve subsurface drainage capacity between local streets and trunk lines and install green infrastructure, such as retention/detention basins and bioswales. This work is part of the FEMA funded Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)'s Leveraged Gray/Green Infrastructure projects and is scheduled to be completed in December 2024. Click here to view the community meeting presentation and map of the project.
For more information, visit roadwork.nola.gov. Questions about this project or RoadworkNOLA should be directed to 504.658.ROAD (7623) or [email protected].
To better serve residents with more timely communication, RoadworkNOLA is in the process of building a distribution list to provide important construction updates through text messaging. To sign up, text ROADWORK to 77295 or go to ready.nola.gov/alerts to create a profile and select the "roadwork" alert list.
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ABOUT ROADWORKNOLA
The City of New Orleans Department of Public Works (DPW) and Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) are working together to implement an unprecedented program to restore our damaged infrastructure. Using local and federal funds, the $2.3 billion program is the most comprehensive that our region has seen in a generation.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ROADWORKNOLA
More than $2.3 billion worth of DPW / SWBNO work across the City
Includes FEMA-funded roadwork work via the approximately $2 billionJoint Infrastructure (JIRR) Program
$250 million FEMA-funded Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) projects
$141 million HUD-funded National Disaster Resiliency Competition (NDRC) grant projects
SWB-funded Sewer System Evaluation and Rehabilitation Program (SSERP) (sewer consent decree)
Nearly 200 individual projects -- every neighborhood will feel this positive impact
Project schedules coordinated to minimize construction-related impacts
Economic opportunity for the City's small and disadvantaged businesses
Proactive communications so that residents are well informed throughout the program