Video of Shelby LaSalle meeting with St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu as they made an inspection tour of the new panel barriers called X-tex boom being installed along a 9,000 foot run in the Rigolets.
The metal frames with a fabric mesh covering can prevent tar balls from floating over or passing under the boom, making them much more effective at stopping oil from entering Lake Pontchartrain.
Krebs, LaSalle Lemieux is developing this technology with a Mississippi partner to bring this innovation to Louisiana in an effort to save the Louisiana wetlands from oil damage.
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