FY26 anticipated levee work requirements within the Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) in the Memphis (W912EQ), Vicksburg (W912EE), and New Orleans (W912P8) Districts

The intent of this special notice is to share the most current information available with respect to anticipated levee work requirements within the Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) in the Memphis (W912EQ), Vicksburg (W912EE), and New Orleans (W912P8) Districts during Fiscal Year 2026. 

NOTE: This information includes projected requirements and schedules that are subject to change. All project information is subject to change as designs are refined and impacts are quantified.

Principle features of work include construction of various types of earthen levee embankment enlargement and repair, seepage berm construction, seepage cut-off construction, and/or installation of relief wells.  This work will be performed primarily along the Mississippi River levee system within the geographic bounds within the Mississippi Valley Division (particularly the Memphis District, Vicksburg District and New Orleans District). The work shall include; required clearing and grubbing, placing geotextile material, placing and compacting of earthen fill to the lines and grades required, moisture and density control of placed earthen fill, construction of sheet pile or slurry seepage cut-off features, installation of groundwater relief wells to specified depth below ground surface, collecting and analyzing soil boring data to establish location of well screens, placing well screens, stems, and filter packs, caps, covers, seals, etc., grouting groundwater wells as required, providing drainage as shown on plan drawings, developing and cleaning ground water wells, establishing turf grass over the work area, and construction of crushed stone access roadways and ramps, miscellaneous reinforced concrete work as shown on plan drawings.

The work shall also include flood wall construction, which generally consists of a new temporary access road, ramps, temporary retaining structure, structural excavation and backfill, steel pipe, or concrete piling, reinforced concrete floodwall construction,...