Road & Highway Crossings in Greater New Orleans
The standard crossing — 80 to 400 feet, a few conduits, pavement untouched — runs through parish machinery here: municipal processes in the cities, parish public works across the eight-parish map, and DOTD's utility permitting on the state system, including the interstates and the causeway approaches. We build the package for the owner of record, pothole everything the locates claim — and in grids this old, the locates claim less than the ground holds, so vac-ex hours get counted honestly.
The delta adds its own crossing note: many roads here ride embankments over soft ground, and the bore plan respects the embankment as a structure — cover, alignment, and fluid pressures designed so the crossing never asks the road to settle differently than it already planned to.
For homeowners, the network's standing candor: a run across your own open yard is trencher work, and we'll say so free on the first call. Where public pavement forces the bore, real crossings start at a $10,000 minimum — rig, crew, locates, engineered pits, and traffic control cost what they cost below sea level.
Straight answers
Do you handle crossings near levees or floodwalls?
Yes — as the regulated work it is: the levee district's engineering review, setbacks and depth criteria honored in the profile, federal coordination where the protection system's integrity is in play, and a schedule that treats the review as load-bearing. Nobody credible shortcuts flood protection in this metro, and the quote says so up front.
Can you bore in the French Quarter or historic districts?
With the district's rules in the plan, yes — HDD is often the only method historic streets can tolerate. Permit layers, archaeology and paving protections, and pit siting all get scoped with the parish and district first, and the restoration standard is the neighborhood's, not ours.