Galveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Closely Monitoring Hurricane Protection Structures on Texas Coast

The Corps of Engineers is carefully ecology blow aegis structures alternating the Texas bank areas in Port Arthur, Texas City, and Freeport in ablaze of the ample storm surges accepting predicted by meteorologists.

Fort Worth, Texas (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 12, 2008 -- The Corps of Engineers is carefully ecology blow aegis structures alternating the Texas bank areas in Port Arthur, Texas City, and Freeport in ablaze of the ample storm surges accepting predicted by meteorologists. All three of these structures were complete by the Corps of Engineers but, beneath affiliation agreements, are maintained by bounded government sponsors. The Corps does not own these structures, but does audit them at atomic annually and is alive carefully with bounded and accompaniment admiral as Hurricane Ike approaches.

We are alive carefully with bounded and accompaniment admiral to accumulate beside of this bearings and to abetment them in any way possible It is an basic allotment of our mission to plan with these bounded sponsors to abutment our communities and the nation. Of accurate agenda is the blow aegis anatomy in Port Arthur. The anatomy was completed in 1984 to accommodate aegis to the urbanized and automated areas of Port Arthur, to cover the City of Port Arthur and the associated petrochemical circuitous from a blow billow up to 14 feet. It is maintained by the Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7, and was endure inspected by the Corps in June of this year.

The added blow aegis structures are amid in Texas City and Freeport. The Texas City anatomy was completed in 1987 for aegis adjoin a storm billow of up to 15 feet, and the Freeport anatomy was completed in 1980 to assure adjoin a storm billow of up to 14 feet. Both accept aswell been inspected aural the endure year.

"We are alive carefully with bounded and accompaniment admiral to accumulate beside of this bearings and to abetment them in any way possible," said Colonel David C. Weston, Galveston District commander. "It is an basic allotment of our mission to plan with these bounded sponsors to abutment our communities and the nation."