Residents Express Opposition to LIT Permit During USACE Hearing

Residents pack into Val Reiss Sports Complex to participate in USACE public hearing on LIT permit.
Residents pack into Val Reiss Sports Complex to participate in USACE public hearing on LIT permit.

In the evening of May 27, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) hosted a public hearing in the Val Reiss Recreation Complex in Chalmette to gather comments on the permit application for the Port of New Orleans’s (PONO) proposed Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) project to be built in Violet. And, as was expected, it was a packed house with residents from all over St. Bernard Paris…