Civil engineering and infrastructure repair in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina evaluation, design and construction management of levees and floodwalls, special closure structures for protection of the communities adjacent to the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, major pumping facilities and planning studies for improved levels of flood protection for New Orleans and southern Louisiana.<ref name="Arcadis/Bioengineering Group contract">Infrasite.net @ web.archive.org "</ref> The Delta Works are a series of constructions built between 1953 and 1997 in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta from the sea. The works consist of dams, sluices, locks, levees, and storm surge barriers. The works were initiated after the North
Delta & Pine Land Company of Mississippi (D&PL) Company was chartered in 1886 in the state of Mississippi, under laws that allowed almost unlimited land holdings by a single company. State laws were later changed to restrict land acquisition and ownership, but these laws did not apply retroactively to companies that were grandfathered in under older laws. In 1911, Fine Cotton Spinners’ and Doublers’ Association Ltd. (FCSDA) of Manchester, England, purchased large tracts of land——in the Mississippi Delta for cotton production. In order to comply with state law regarding land ownership, FCSDA created three companies—"Lake Vista Plantation Company" and "Triumph Plantation Company" owned land, while "Mississippi Delta