The 13th amendment formally abolishing slavery was ratified later that same year. And thus, the last remaining enslaved African Americans in Texas were freed. Upon arriving in Galveston, Granger delivered the news in one of his first official orders. The news came from Union Major General Gordon Granger, who had been given command of the Department of Texas following the end of the Civil War. Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, or Emancipation Day, commemorates the date in 1865 that the last documented illegally detained slaves learned that they were free, roughly two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law.
NEW ORLEANS - After passing unanimously in both the House and Senate, on June 11, 2021, Governor John Bel Edwards signed a bill designating Juneteenth as a Louisiana state holiday. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. U.S.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The study phase is 100% Federally funded. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is the non-Federal sponsor. Reduce the costs associated with coastal storm damage to the environment and human health.Reduce economic damages due to coastal storm damage over the period of analysis.Reduce risk of life loss due to coastal storm damage over the period of analysis.A positive determination would make construction of future levee lifts eligible for future budget requests. The study will also consider other levels of risk reduction. The study seeks to determine if the work necessary to sustain the 1% level of risk reduction is technically feasible, environmentally acceptable, and economically justified. USACE will notify FEMA once the system no longer provides the 1% level of risk reduction, which may result in the loss of accreditation required for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. Absent future levee lifts to offset consolidation, settlement, subsidence, and sea level rise, risk to life and property in the Greater New Orleans area will progressively increase. Engineering analysis indicates the HSDRRS will no longer provide 1% level of risk reduction as early as 2023. The HSDRRS project authority did not provide for future lifts. Southeast Louisiana, including the Greater New Orleans area, is generally characterized by weak soils, general subsidence, and the global incidence of sea level rise that will cause levees to require future lifts to sustain performance of the HSDRRS. The completion of the levees, floodwalls, gates, and pumps that together form the HSDRRS brought 100-year level of hurricane and storm damage risk reduction to the areas within LPV and WBV. The project included restoration, accelerated construction, improvements, and enhancements of various risk reduction projects within southeastern Louisiana, including the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana Project (LPV) and the West Bank and Vicinity, Louisiana Project (WBV), jointly referred to as the Greater New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS). embarked on one of the largest civil works projects ever undertaken, at an estimated cost of $14 billion. The devastation to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita included the loss of over 1,800 lives, it temporarily and permanently displaced many thousands of residents, and resulted in estimated property damages in excess of $40 billion in New Orleans and as much as $100 billion along the Gulf Coast.Īfter the devastation of the 2005 hurricane season, the U.S. Public Law 115-123 (Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018) funded the study as a new start. The USACE is preparing the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity General Re-evaluation Report under the authority of Section 3017 of WRRDA 2014.
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