In preparation of hurricane season, the South Lafourche levee district installed the HESCO Concertainer flood control system. Decades ago, many residents of south Lafourche built homes well before federal and state hurricane protection levees existed. After numerous flood protection projects in the area, many found themselves still living outside the protection system and extremely vulnerable to storm surge.

A flood control solution was needed and engineers were faced with the problem of limited space due to existing structures.

HESCO Concertainer units offered the needed 3-foot increase in flood protection without interrupting the current roadways and private properties.

Four hundred feet of levee was built per day using limited manpower. The implementation of rapidly deployable Concertainer units offered protection that was not vulnerable to wave fetch and erosion - the forces that cause most earthen levee breaches.

The HESCO Concertainer units proved most valid able when engineers realized the new levee would intersect important hurricane evacuation routes. The initially proposed earthen levee would require all roads to be rebuilt as an overpass to the levee. Concertainer units, which are manufactures in 15` sections, allow all roadways to remain open to traffic until evacuations are complete. Afterwards additional sections are emergency installed to fill roadway gaps.

HESCO Concertainer units can be designed as flood barrier to help protect entire communities, private entities, and government complexes. Or even critical dwellings such as hospitals.