Bollard Border Wall

A border patrol agent is seen along the border during the official start for the construction of new bollard wall to replace 20 miles of primary vehicle barriers in santa teresa new mexico.

Bollard border wall.

Examples of this include a fence with windows in nogales mexico and a proposed art decorated wall that would adjoin the university of brownsville in texas. The steel bollard construction is the winning candidate from eight wall designs. Trump initially wanted to build a concrete wall along the length of the border but was talked out of it by homeland security officials who said the bollard system is a superior design because it. In fiscal year 2017 cbp received 341 million for the construction of approximately 40 miles of new bollard wall and gates in priority areas at the san diego el centro el paso and the rio grande valley sectors.

A steel bollard style wall provides significant impedance and denial capability. The existing bollard style barrier has been described using both the terms wall and fence the chief of the border patrol in el paso aaron hull said in a. This funding is supporting the top border barrier priorities for the u s. A trial section of the privately built border wall is experiencing erosion especially after hurricane hanna in july.

In addition cbp will replace approximately 2 miles of primary pedestrian wall in el centro sector and approximately 14 miles of primary pedestrian wall in san diego sector using the steel bollard wall design.