Lakefront Permanent Pump Stations Now Pushed Back More Than a Year
A couple of weeks ago, I sent the email below out, describing how official Corps construction contract schedules seemd to be implying the permanent pump stations would get pushed back a year.
Since then, the Corps has issued a newer version of that schedule. It is dated June 16, 2008:
It shows the permanent pump station contract not getting awarded until the fourth quarter of 2009. That’s three months later than even the April, 2008 document indicated. And it’s well over a year after the Corps has been publicly claiming the stations would get underway.
This would seem to indicate that the stations will be pushed back to the 2013 storm season, or two years after the Corps has promised 100-year protection.
Many other projects have been pushed back, including the lakefront closure at Seabrook, near Lakefront airport. It has slipped from the 1st quarter of 2010 to the 2nd quarter of 2010.
Now that there are two versions of this schedule, it shouldn’t be hard to see all the schedule slippage on all the projects.
I ask the media on this email: please cover this. There’s a major permanent pump stations meeting on July 1, and for now, the question of whether these things will actually get built would seem a legitimate one to ask the Corps at that meeting.
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