USACE - Jacksonville District Central Everglades Planning Project Industry Day

The project work includes excavation, dewatering, blasting, and construction for a new levee system, a new pump station structure, a new spillway structure, and a steel pile bulkhead wall. The overall site is approximately 20 acres, north of the site is Water Control Area 3 (WCA3). Specific major project components include the following items:

• A new levee system located along the northern side of the project site, approximately 1,600-feet long, with a crest width of 16.0 feet with 3H:1V side slopes.
• A new pump station structure has a total pumping capacity of 1,250 cfs that consists of four (4) 250 cfs diesel motor driven pumps and two (2) 125 cfs electric motor driven pumps, superstructure, substructure, service bridge, and vehicle access ramps.
• A new spillway structure with a design capacity of 1,200 cfs with two (2) bays, vertical lift roller gate, and a service bridge.
• Both structures will have an anchored steel pile bulkhead wall located at the intake bay and discharge of the pump station
• The installation of rip rap slope protection along the canal banks and canal bottom of the L-29 canal.