Our
pastors were featured on the front page of the Jefferson
Picayune section of the Times Picayune Sunday,
January 1, 2006.
Pastor
Beverly was featured in an article in "Enhance" Christian
Magazine. Click thumbnails below to read article.
Published on the La DOTD web site June 2, 2004
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony held for New Orleans I-10 Pump Station
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, June 1, for the new I-10
Pump Station in New Orleans . Gordon Nelson, DOTD Assistant Secretary
for the Office of Operations, served as Master of Ceremonies for the
event, which was held on June 1 to coincide with the first day of
Hurricane Season. The ceremony took place at Praise Church , located on
Academy Drive , directly across from the Pump Station.
The project consisted of construction of the new pump station, which is
capable of pumping 390,000 gallons per minute, the widening of I-10 from
the Southern Railroad Underpass to Tulane Avenue, the installation of
new drainage at the Underpass and Metairie Road , and the addition of
soundwalls. The roadway work was completed in April of 2004. The pump
station is functionally operational as of June 1; it will be completed
in August of 2004.
In addition to Nelson, remarks were given by Mayor C. Ray Nagin, City of
New Orleans; Chief Terry Tullier, Director of the New Orleans Office of
Emergency Preparedness; Councilman John A. Batt, Jr.; and Marcia St.
Martin, Interim Executive Director of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water
Board. Pastor Garland Bilbo, of Praise Church , provided the
Invocation and the Benediction.
James Construction Group, of Kenner, was the contractor for the project.
The DOTD Project Engineer was Larry Langenstein.
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