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Water is pumped out of the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans into the 17th Street Canal. At about 6:30 am on August 29, 2005, a portion of the I-wall along the east side of the 17th Street Canal adjacent to the 6900 block of Bellaire Drive split open, sending torrents of water into New Orleans' Lakeview neighborhood. The water level in the ...
The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal and is capable of conveying more water than the Orleans Avenue and London Avenue Canals combined. [ 1 ] The 17th Street Canal extends 13,500 feet (4,100 m) north from Pump Station 6 to Lake Pontchartrain along the boundary of Orleans and Jefferson parishes.
Point Pleasant Canal: Point Pleasant: NJ: 2 mi (3.2 km) Part of the Intracoastal Waterway: Port Townsend Ship Canal: Jefferson County: WA: 0.9 mi (1.4 km) Portage Lake Canal: Houghton County: MI: 2.5 mi (4.0 km) Part of Keweenaw Waterway: Sabine–Neches Waterway: Southeast Texas: TX: 64 mi (103 km) Calcasieu Parish: LA: Sacramento Deep Water ...
Canal Street in the 1950s. For more than a century, Canal Street was the main shopping district of Greater New Orleans.Local or regional department stores Maison Blanche, D. H. Holmes, Godchaux's, Gus Mayer, Labiche's, Kreeger's, and Krauss anchored numerous well-known specialty retailers, such as Rubenstein Men's Store, Adler's Jewelry, Koslow's, Rapp's, and Werlein's Music, as well as ...
The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The canal, along with the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal , form the New Orleans Outfall Canals . The current version of the canal is about 2 km long, running along the up-river side of City Park , through the Lakeview and Lakeshore neighborhood, and into Lake ...
Hurricane Katrina heavily impacted much of the Ward. [11] Lakeview is only some dozen blocks from the notorious breach in the 17th Street Canal. [12] [13] Narrow strips of land at the two ends of the Ward, in the French Quarter by the Riverfront and on some of the higher ground of the Lakeshore, were above the flood waters. [14]
Canal Boulevard is located in the Lakeview area of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a divided roadway that goes from City Park Avenue to Lake Pontchartrain. Canal Boulevard is a prolongation of Canal Street [1] which runs from the Mississippi River to City Park Avenue. As New Orleans expanded, the area of Lakeview was 'reclaimed' cypress swampland.
The City RR came under the control of the New Orleans Traction Co. in 1892 as the system was prepared for electrification. A large order for new electric streetcars was placed with the Brill Co. of Philadelphia. The Canal Line was the first New Orleans Traction line to be electrified, beginning electric service on July 28, 1894.