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TROPICAL STORM LEE September 1-6 After Action Report

TROPICAL STORM LEE September 1-6 After Action Report. Lee becomes T ropical Storm on September 1 st and makes landfall on September 4 th South of White Lake in Vermillion Parish. TIDAL EFFECTS. 3.9. Harvey Canal at Boomtown. West Bank and Vicinity.

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TROPICAL STORM LEE September 1-6 After Action Report

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  1. TROPICAL STORM LEESeptember 1-6After Action Report

  2. Lee becomes Tropical Storm on September 1st and makes landfall on September 4th South of White Lake in Vermillion Parish

  3. TIDAL EFFECTS 3.9 Harvey Canal at Boomtown

  4. West Bank and Vicinity • Harvey Canal Sector Gate closed (not pictured) • Overtopping of private levee on Harvey Canal • Levee eroded at overtopping site

  5. West Bank and Vicinity • Water seepage through new floodwalls • Street flooding on Peters Road from rainfall and some initial overtopping

  6. West Bank and Vicinity • Flooding of LA-23, Belle Chase Highway near Myrtle Grove • Overtopping of Citrus Lands Levees

  7. West Bank and Vicinity • Approximately 100 homes flooded in southern reaches of Lafitte • Sandbagging Operations protected some homes

  8. TIDAL EFFECTS 4.1 Lake Pontchartrain at West End

  9. Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity • Street flooding on flood side of system • Sand and debris on Lakeshore drive

  10. TIDAL EFFECTS 4.2 Golden Meadow Floodgate South

  11. Lafourche and Terrebonne • 16.5 inches of rain, up to 11 inches in a 24 hour period in Golden Meadow. • Gates at Larose and Golden Meadow shut down for 5 days. • Water levels in Bayou Lafourche reached +1.7, 0.7’ over flood stage causing some street flooding. • Some breaching on the North Lafourche levees. • Some Home flooding in Terrebonne. • Water levels on Bayou Terrebonne floodgate, 3.1’ on inside and 5.8’ on the outside. • Enough evidence that Morganza to the Gulf Projects, although incomplete, are reducing water levels during storms.

  12. After Action items • Ensure that Levee, Drainage and scour repairs are made by USACE on WBV and LPV projects. • Surplus fund project to provide +7.5 tidal protection in Lafitte by 2012 hurricane season • Look for funding source to raise Citrus Land levees in Myrtle Grove. USACE New Orleans to Venice project will federalize system in about 5 years. • Levee repairs on North Lafourche levee system.

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