London Avenue Canal
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The London Avenue Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, used for pumping rain water into Lake Pontchartrain. The canal runs through the 7th Ward of New Orleans from the Gentilly area to
London Avenue Canal; view from Robert E. Lee Bridge looking riverwards, 19 October 2005. Intact concrete flood wall atop levee visible at left. At right, incompletely repaired upper breach visible.
London Avenue Canal Memorial
Lake Pontchartrain
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Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers 630 square miles with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Some shipping channels are kept deeper through dredg
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Lake Pontchartrain from southbound causeway entrance
Lake Pontchartrain's north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2004
At the southern terminus of LA 1077 in Madisonville, this lighthouse is on the west estuary of the Tchefuncte River at Lake Pontchartrain and was constructed in 1837.