随着飓风季节的临近，美国国土安全部已经开始修复得克萨斯州里奥格兰德洪水障碍13英里的大型违规行为，这是由于特朗普行政管理边境墙承包商在其上建造的，当地官员担心“广泛的问题”“凭着他们的正直，威胁要引进自己的船员。
Local media reports said when wall construction was suspended in January by the Biden administration, levees were left with giant cuts that had been made to drive heavy equipment through so the wall could be built on the river side, including at least four breaks in Hidalgo County.
拥有和维护堤防的国际边界和水委员会的工程师已经与美国陆军工程兵团以及美国海关和边境保护兵团合作了数周。新利18备用她说：“我们的工程师重申了在6月1日开始之前在飓风季节之前向当地社区提供洪水保护的重要性。”委员会“非常关注下里奥格兰德山谷中现有的堤防差距”。
根据一份当地报告，军团官员表示，将需要一个月的时间召集承包商到现场，直到年底进行维修。但是，伊达尔戈县法官理查德·科尔特斯（Richard Cortez）和众议员亨利·库拉尔（Henry Cuellar）（D-TX）的压力在进行压力之后，工作开始了，他们立即开始新利18备用派遣县船员来做联邦维修工作。
不w work to fill in levee gaps is expected to take two weeks, with fixes of other levee damage to take as long as five months, Cortez said.
长期修复
在制定解决问题的完整计划时，国土安全部表示，它正在采取初步措施来保护边境社区免受身体危险。该机构说，这项工作将不包括任何边境屏障扩展，但没有对维修估算的征询询问或确定可以完成这项工作的承包商的询问。新利18备用
DHS说：“长期以来，洪水障碍系统提供了伊达尔戈县保护灾难洪水的低洼地区，这些违规行为威胁着当地社区。”
关于300 miles of levees were built on both sides of the river, which were completed in 1951. The system now includes 270 miles of levees in the U.S., 102 of which lie along the lower section of the river from Hidalgo County to the Gulf of Mexico. About 1 million people live in the protected region, the boundary commission says.
国土安全部还将通过14英里壁细分市场的土壤和建筑材料压实不当引起圣地亚哥的“危险”土壤侵蚀。它说，该机构将备份以保护附近的边境社区。涉及损害的承包商未命名。
While not under federal control or part of any repair, a privately funded border wall built separately directly on the Rio Grande riverbank by federal border wall contractor Fisher Sand and Gravel is the subject of ongoing litigation between the U.S. government and the company, with a hearing held on May 5 in U.S. District Court in the southern district of Texas related to its construction.
The three-mile wall had shown signs of erosion and potential failure based on独立的工程分析去年进行，但费舍尔表示，他提出了结论，并承诺采取一些缓解步骤。费舍尔打算在特朗普政府期间将墙捐赠给联邦政府，但仍然是私有制。
Contracts Cancelled
美国国防部于4月30日开始取消所有边界墙建筑项目，该项目以特朗普总统2019年行政命令从军事建设项目中转移的资金支付。新利18备用网址国防部发言人说，未污染的转移军事建筑基金将用于原本计划的项目。新利18备用网址
剩下的资金尚未确定，但在12月下旬，尚未完成约110亿美元的合同。
The Associated Press said April 30 that $6.1 billion of the $10.8 billion in signed contracts had been spent, although the figure has not been made public. The Trump Administration said it had $15 billion to spend on the wall including funds appropriated by Congress and funds diverted from DOD and the Treasury Dept. The amount is reported actually to be closer to $16.5 billion, according to AP.
All wall construction on Corps-awarded contracts was scheduled to be completed in 2021 and by November 2022. The former president had intended to build 664 miles of wall, with 450 miles completed before he left office.
The most recent contract awards by the Corps were in September 2020.
截至2021年3月，Fisher Sand和Gravel拥有大约20亿美元的DOD资金合同；总部位于德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿的SLS Co.有14亿美元；BFBC，Bozeman，Mont。，Barnard Construction单位。有17亿美元；Kiewit单位西南谷建筑商拥有21亿美元；总部位于加利福尼亚州圣安娜的CJW合资企业有1.218亿美元；底特律的LGC承包商有4,700万美元。这些合同是针对亚利桑那州，新墨西哥州，加利福新利18备用网址尼亚和德克萨斯州的项目。
国土安全部尚未宣布军团代表其授予的合同的未来，并未回应Enr的查询。新利18备用这些合同主要位于里奥格兰德谷（Rio Grande Valley）和德克萨斯州拉雷多（Laredo）附近
As of March, Fisher Sand and Gravel had $298 million in DHS contracts awarded by the Corps; SLS had $446.5 million; SWV had $590.6 million; Southern Border Constructors, Farmingdale, N.Y., had $518.4 million; Gibraltar-Caddell joint venture, Montgomery, Ala., had $298 million; Randy Kinder Excavating, Dexter, Mo., had $153 million; Gideon Contracting, San Antonio, had $17.6 million; and Dawson Federal, Honolulu, had $15.2 million.
国土安全局，海关和边境巡逻队的发言人没有回应ENR授予合同清单的要求。新利18备用
2月，一个大型环保团体联盟要求拜登政府立即取消所有边境墙合同，并将其剩余的资金转移，以拆除损害社区和野生动植物的墙壁区域并造成损害。
这些团体说，障碍的建设扰乱或破坏了土著坟墓和文化遗址。墙面也阻碍了重要的野生动植物迁移路线，并通过阻断河流和溪流以及干燥弹簧和湿地来干扰表面水文。
“We are actively working with border communities, elected officials, and Indigenous tribes across the borderlands to kickstart restoration,” Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner for the Center of Biological Diversity, told ENR, saying that the Biden administration soon will announce a plan to mitigate damages and restore lands destroyed by its predecessor.
