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Mississippi Gulf Coast

Covington has provided engineering services to Waffle House for several locations along the MS Gulf Coast. These services include site design (site demolition, grading, drainage, utilities and paving), preparation of construction plans, project...

Bayou View Water Tank Replacement Project

Gulfport, Mississippi

The Bayou View Water Tank replacement project was listed as the number one priority project in Phase I of the City of Gulfport’s capital improvement program. As discussed in the master plan update, a recent inspection of the Bayou View elevated...

TURNBERRY DRAINING PROJECT

Diamondhead, Mississippi

As development has increased in the vicinity of Turnberry Drive and Turnberry Way in Diamondhead, the area has also experienced an increase in flooding. In the initial design study, Covington identified a series of improvements to alleviate...

Underground Storage Tanks

Leaking underground petroleum storage tanks (USTs) are a common source of soil and groundwater contamination. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) regulates USTs, investigates petroleum releases from USTs and oversees the...

Environmental, Land

Oil and Gas Mergers & Acquisitions

From pre-land acquisition support to post-completion and well closure activities, Covington’s integrated approach supports the complete life cycle of our clients’ land assets with spill and release assessments & remediation, Phase I & II...

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Covington has provided engineering services to Hancock Bank for several branch bank locations along the MS Gulf Coast. These services include site design (site demolition, grading, drainage, utilities and paving), preparation of construction plans,...

DIAMONDHEAD DRAINAGE PLAN

Diamondhead, Mississippi

The City of Diamondhead was experiencing an increase in runoff due to upstream development and sought to analyze its own local drainageways to evaluate potential downstream infrastructure impacts. Using a holistic approach to analyze the drainage...

Mallini Bayou Dredging and Shoreline Protection Tidelands

Pass Christian, Mississippi

Mallini Bayou drains a large portion of Pass Christian and a smaller portion of unincorporated Harrison County. Debris accumulation and shoaling of the bayou occurred at its discharge location into St. Louis Bay causing poor drainage and preventing...

LBWMD Stormwater Management Program

Long Beach, Mississippi

Three stormwater drainage canals drain the majority of surface water from the City of Long Beach. As part of a maintenance agreement with the United States Corps of Engineers, the LBWMD is required to maintain the canals to prevent shoaling, erosion...

Engineering, Program Management

Hattiesburg Public Safety Complex

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Covington and SMPDD served as construction manager and project administrator for the construction of the Hattiesburg Public Safety Complex, including the renovation of temporary quarters for the police department and municipal court, permanent...

MBNEP Habitat Mapping Project

Mobile, Alabama

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (NFWF GEBF) awarded a grant to the state of Alabama to conduct a habitat mapping project with the MBNEP. The Covington Team acted as the science lead for the MBNEP project...

Environmental, Program Management, Scientific Support

HURRICANE ZETA DEBRIS MONITORING PROJECT

We provided several Mississippi coast communities with debris removal monitoring services in the aftermath of Hurricane Zeta. The team mobilized and trained a local workforce to monitor the removal of hurricane debris. Under this project, we...

Disaster Recovery

Gulfport-Biloxi Int'l Airport

Gulfport, Mississippi

Covington currently holds the environmental engineering contract to provide all environmental engineering services to the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport for the time period of September 2016 to September 2019. Covington completed the 2016...

Engineering, Environmental

Bayou Brule 3-D Seismic Permitting & Leasing Project

At the time when Covington began working with GIS mapping software in 2000, packaged GIS software for energy land operations, right-of-way acquisitions, and many engineering applications was on the cusp of development. Since then we have mastered...

Land, Program Management

DIAMONDHEAD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT TRANSFORMATION PROJECT

Diamondhead, Mississippi

Our team is currently supporting the City of Diamondhead Commercial District Transformation Project, a multi-phased effort to build a commercial corridor that will accommodate multiple modes of travel and provide for residential and commercial...

Environmental Site Assessment

Covington provides services in the areas of Phase I Environmental Site Assessments for commercial, industrial and oil field properties located throughout the United States. Additionally, Covington conducts Phase II Environmental Site Assessments...

Brownfields Projects

Biloxi, Mississippi

In 2014, the City of Biloxi received a $400,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental assessments of brownfields sites. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion,...

Engineering, Environmental, Program Management

Biloxi, Mississippi

The White Pillars is a historical home which served as a restaurant prior to Hurricane Katrina. The building was renovated after significant damage during Hurricane Katrina. Covington provided engineering services to renovate existing parking areas...

Stormwater Outfalls – Phase I

Biloxi, Mississippi

The beaches along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are dynamic coastal systems that experience erosion and deposition of sand depending on wave conditions. Many of the existing outfall pipes and storm drainage structures discharging onto the beach and...

The Everglades Foundation Phosphorus Grand Challenge

Palmetto Bay, Florida

The Grand Challenge, run by the Everglades Foundation, is a $10 million prize that will be awarded to anyone who can successfully develop and execute a process to remove excessive phosphorus from our waterways, and develop a method to recycle that...

Environmental, Scientific Support

Mississippi Coastal Streams Assessment

Mississippi Gulf Coast

The Covington Team served as the Program Manager for a nine stream coastal assessment that engaged The Nature Conservancy to create an assessment of stream conditions for the three coastal counties in Mississippi. The Covington Team provided...

CITY OF GULFPORT PIER DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND ENGINEERING

City of Gulfport

Covington was hired by the City of Gulfport to complete damage assessments and engineering services to identify, document and ultimately repair all four of the City’s piers damaged during Hurricane Zeta. Covington completed structural damage...

Disaster Recovery

Tulane University Nitrogen Reduction Grand Challenge

New Orleans, Louisiana

Tulane University is running the first of a multi-phase challenge series tackling hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. The “Tulane Nitrogen Reduction Grand Challenge” is an international competition that will award $1 million to the entrepreneur,...

Environmental, Scientific Support

Gulfport Fertilizer Site

Gulfport, Mississippi

The Gulfport Fertilizer Site manufactured super-phosphate fertilizer from 1914 – 1921. The super-phosphate process involved spraying limestone aggregate with sulfuric acid to leach phosphate from the aggregate. The sulfuric acid was then processed...

HURRICANE ZETA RAPID RECOVERY AND POST-DISASTER REDEVELOPMENT

City of Waveland

Covington is currently providing rapid recovery and post-disaster redevelopment services for the City of Waveland, which experienced damage to its facilities and operations during Hurricane Zeta in 2020. The team is providing general financial...

Disaster Recovery

Coastal Restoration Activities

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Coastal restoration in Mississippi is a long-term sustainable endeavor that will yield fruitful economic and ecological benefits to the Gulf Coast, the rest of the state of Mississippi, and have far reaching implications throughout the United...

Environmental, Land, Program Management, Scientific Support

Through the Deepwater Horizon Restoration Funding stream of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (GEBF), and on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Covington created,...