Durr Relies on QSM at Cypress Bayou
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Durr Heavy Construction called on QSM to provide drainage pipe at the Cypress Bayou Intermediate Dentention Pond in St. Tammany Parish, near Lacombe.
The 20-acre pond creates an area of 800-acre feet of storm water storage (the equivalent of 365 football fields holding water 2-feet deep). Pipe was installed recently in long runs underground coming into the pond area. Construction cost is $2.86 million, with an expected completion date of February, 2013.
Cypress Bayou was conceived and designed to reduce the potential impact of storm water in a 1,400 home area. In recent years, more than 130 homes have flooded. Of those more than 60 have flooded repeatedly.
The Cypress Bayou Detention Pond is south of Interstate 12, north of Brier Lake subdivision in Lacombe.
Once completed, the natural wetlands environment will be installed, which includes planting cypress seedlings and other native bottom hardwood vegetation species.
Funding for the project was provided by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and St. Tammany Parish drainage funds.
QSM provided more than 1700 linear feet of Contech’s 36” A-2000