MONROE, La. -- More than 15 Louisiana National Guardsmen from the 1022nd Engineer Company and the 844th Engineer Company have been assembling emergency levee walls on the banks of the Ouachita River in Monroe, Louisiana, to protect the city from rising river levels caused by excessive rainfall.
These citizen-Soldiers are working in conjunction with the Tensas Levee Basin District to transform half a mile of hinged concrete slabs, which are usually the sidewalk alongside the river, into a six-foot tall levee.
"This levee is a modular system which can be put up and put down in a day or two," said 1st Lt. Sean Place of West Monroe.
"Anything we can do to save people's businesses and lives, that's what we're here to do," said Staff Sgt. Tommy Dunlop of Choudrant, Louisiana.
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