Katrina is not the first massive storm to test the Lake Pontchartrain Basin levees.
This will study the northern part of the hurricane coming in from Lake Pontchartrain.
We had a view of the grassy levee meant to hold back Lake Pontchartrain.
But Hurricane Katrina produced forces that overcame the levees and unleashed gravity's power upon Pontchartrain's water.
Davis described as "wonderful" the FEMA employees assigned to his parish along the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
To address this problem, drainage canals were built going from the heart of the city out to Lake Pontchartrain.
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Drive out of New Orleans on the causeway across Lake Pontchartrain, and it feels like you're traveling to another world.
In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later became the city of Detroit.
The business community, which had holed up in the city's higher-ground residential areas or across Lake Pontchartrain, re-engaged in civic life.
New Orleans sits mostly below sea level on swampland on the east bank of the Mississippi River and south of Lake Pontchartrain.
Yes, Louisiana tempted nature by building a great city below Lake Pontchartrain.
It's actually a miniature part of New Orleans near Lake Pontchartrain.
Last week as Lake Pontchartrain swelled through the streets of New Orleans Dave Neal noticed many state and local emergency management officials making the same observation.
Tar balls and oily water were spotted on Monday near the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, a large lake to the north of New Orleans, in Louisiana.
The restaurant was originally conceived, not long after Katrina, as a homage to the rustic seafood joints that once lined the banks of New Orleans's Lake Pontchartrain.
And members of my Cabinet -- including EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, who grew up in Pontchartrain Park -- (applause) -- they have come down here dozens of times.
Storm surge is already beginning to lap against the levees of Lake Pontchartrain as a troubled populace swims in the lake, drinks margaritas and practices their golf swings.
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The school, located near Lake Pontchartrain, was washed away.
One proposal: a set of giant movable gates to be built on the land separating Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf that when closed could block tidal surges, and when open, improve water flow.
To help New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it will open 52 more bays at the Bonnet Carre Spillway just north of the city, diverting water into Lake Pontchartrain.
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But Hurricane Katrina's winds pushed in a devastating surge of water from the Gulf of Mexico that overwhelmed the city's system of levees built to hold back the surrounding Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.
The barrier islands east of Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain have still not recovered from the blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bossart said, and a spill such as this one could seriously threaten their recovery.
As images and stories put us in awe of nature's destructive power, it may be worth a moment to marvel at the force of gravity that governs the behavior of all matter, from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain to light.
Ever since 1718, when Jean Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, a French colonist, decided to build his settlement on a hurricane-prone patch of swampland surrounded by three huge pools of water (the Mississippi Delta, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain), New Orleans has been living in nature's shadow.
Mr. SCHLEIFSTEIN: Well, the estimates before the storm for protecting the city from a Category 5 hurricane were that you would have to rebuild a large chunk of the city's levee system, add a whole bunch of rocks on waterways leading into Lake Pontchartrain and other parts of the area.
We published a major multiday series several years ago called Washing Away in which we laid out in very stark and clear and understandable terms what would happen if a hurricane of this magnitude approached New Orleans from a certain angle, as this one did, and pushed the waters of Lake Pontchartrain against the levees.
You may try to explode it, blow it up, whatever, depending on what you want to do with it, and in this case, they're going to send waves coming in off the shore, you know, lapping in off of Lake Pontchartrain, and they want to try to understand why the flood protection built by the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold up.
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