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Authorized Plan of Protection for Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana, November 1965. Map by U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans Corps of Engineers. Revised Dec 1970 and April 1978. Heavy flooding caused by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 brought concerns regarding flooding from hurricanes to the forefront.
Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans during Hurricane Georges in 1998; lakefront fishing camps outside of the protection levee suffered severe damage. During hurricanes, a storm surge can build up in Lake Pontchartrain. Wind pushes water into the lake from the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane approaches from the south, and from there it can spill ...
The 24-mile (39 km) long Lake Pontchartrain Causeway escaped unscathed but was only carrying emergency traffic. [29] On August 29, at about 7:30 a.m. CDT, it was reported that most of the windows on the north side of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans had been blown out, and many other high rise buildings nearby also had extensive window damage. [30]
I-10 damage of old bridges over Lake Pontchartrain. Scavenged bridge segments from the westbound span were used to fill in the gaps in the eastbound span. [7] On October 10, 2005, the east span was reopened to traffic with one lane in each direction. [7]
Travel has again been slowed on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway outside New Orleans one day after numerous crashes caused by foggy conditions forced officials to close the span for hours.
St. Tammany Parish Fire District #4, in an update around 9:50 a.m. Tuesday, had said fire units were dealing with an 11-vehicle crash on the southbound span of the Causeway Bridge. "As a result ...
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long.
A tropical storm warning remained in place from Intracoastal City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border, which included the New Orleans metro area and Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.