LOUISIANA BARRIER BERMS
PROJECT DETAILS
PROJECT CLIENT
Louisiana Office of
Coastal Protection and
Restoration, USACE
DREDGE QUANTITY
13 million cubic yards
VESSEL TYPE
Trailing Suction Hopper
& Cutter Suction Dredge
DREDGES WORKED
Terrapin Island, Liberty Island,
Padre Island, California,
Texas, Alaska & GL55
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
This large-scale emergency project was in response to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The State of Louisiana implemented a plan to strategically place sand berms in the way of the migrating oil spill in order to protect the sensitive marsh and wetlands along the Gulf Coast. Great Lakes utilized three large hydraulic dredges, two booster stations, three hopper dredges, eight material transport barges, a large clamshell dredge, over 100,000 feet of pipeline and numerous support vessels to construct over nine miles of sand berms. Several hundred dredge crew, engineering and management staff participated in the effort.
