New Orleans, LA, USA
February, 2006
he Naval Construction Battalion Center , Gulfport , MS., recently chose Nova International to assist with the recovery of personal effects and government property from the badly damaged New Orleans Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) following Hurricane Katrina .
The three building facility, which contains more than 1300 workstations and 100 offices, was badly damaged during the storm which also caused the evacuation of all but a skeleton crew of SPAWAR personnel.
With a workforce made up of some 60 displaced New Orleans residents and managers from the Washington , D.C. based company, Nova removed office equipment and employee belongings in a ten day period.
The Nova relief and recovery efforts allowed for an efficient and orderly process - personal and government property from the SPAWAR facility was recorded, stored in a dry, environmentally safe area, and remained there until ready to be returned to the site.
The path of destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina was burdensome for the New Orleans area. But for the people at SPAWAR, this destruction was minimal thanks in part to Nova’s relief and recovery work.
Facts about United States
- Coordinates: 38° 50' N, 97° W
- Total area: 9,826,630 sq km
- Climate: mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
- Terrain: vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii
- Population: 298,444,215
- Median age: 36.5 years
- Airports: 14,858 (34% paved)
- Roadways: 6,430,366 km (65% paved)
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