Orleans Canal
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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 th
North end of the Orleans Avenue Canal, 2010
17th Street Canal
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The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal in the city of New Orleans. Operating with Pump Station 6, it moves water into Lake Pontchartrain. The canal, along with the Orle
A woman walks her dog along the levee beside the flood wall on the Metairie side of the canal, November 11, 2005. In the background to the right, ongoing repairs in the breach on the New Orleans side can be seen.
"Pumping Station 6" astride the Canal from the back (lake) side
A portion of the 17th Street Canal, looking lakeward from behind the Metairie Road Pumping Station. Note the levees topped with concrete flood walls.
Water is pumped out of the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans into the 17th Street Canal.