 Woman walks dog along the levee beside the floodwall on the Metarie side of the Canal, 11 November, 2005. In the background to the right, ongoing repairs in the breach on the New Orleans side can be seen. The 17th Street Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana that flows into Lake Pontchartrain. The Canal forms a significant portion of the boundary between New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana. The Canal has also been known as the Metairie Outlet Canal and the Upperline Canal. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1494, 1013 KB) Summary New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: On the Metarie, Louisiana side of the 17th Street Canal, a woman walks her dog along the levee beside the flood-wall. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1494, 1013 KB) Summary New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: On the Metarie, Louisiana side of the 17th Street Canal, a woman walks her dog along the levee beside the flood-wall. ...
The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France. ...
Flag Seal Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot Location Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates , Government Country State Parish United States Louisiana Orleans Parish, Louisiana Founded 1718 Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 350. ...
Landsat image of Lake Pontchartrain Map showing Lake Pontchartrain Lake Pontchartrains north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana in 2004 Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans during Hurricane Georges in 1998 Lake Pontchartrain (local English pronunciation ) (French: Lac Pontchartrain, pronounced ) is a brackish lake in southeastern Louisiana, the...
Metairie (local pronunciations , ) is an unincorporated, census-designated place (CDP) located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. ...
History
The canal that was to become later known as the 17th Street Canal seems to have had its origin at the start of the 1850s as a canal dug through swampy ground to raise a parallel right of way where the Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railway was built. The Railway, in business from 1853 through 1864, connected the town of Carrollton, Louisiana (along the Mississippi River front) with a shipping port on Lake Pontchartrain at what became Bucktown, Louisiana, a distance of about 5 miles. At the time, most of the land between the two terminals was undeveloped swamp. // Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution...
1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
Carrollton is a neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It is the part of uptown New Orleans furthest up river from the French Quarter. ...
The Mississippi River, derived from the old Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning great river (gichi-ziibi big river at its headwaters), is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. ...
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Meanwhile, in 1858, a secondary canal was built to aid in drainage in the low swampy area in "back of town" from Carrollton, with its head at what is now Dublin and Palmetto, connecting to the Railway canal a short distance on the river side of the Metairie Ridge.
The railway was discontinued on 31 December 1864 as competing rail lines between the river and lake were more successful. The city of New Orleans annexed Carrollton, and the canal became the boundary line between Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish. As the canal marked the up-river limit of Orleans Parish, it became known as the Upperline Canal. December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...
Jefferson Parish is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ...
The spur canal in the back of Carrollton was beside a projected street numbered "17th Street" (although at the time there was little actual development in back of Claiborne Avenue), and that canal was thus the first to be known as the "17th Street Canal", a name which would later come to commonly refer to the large canal which this connected to.
Improved drainage with pumping stations
 "Pumping Station 6" astride the Canal from the back (lake) side By the 1870s, a steam engine powered pump known as the "Dublin Street Machine" at the back of the Carrollton neighborhood was used to drain that neighborhood, pumping the water out the Upperline Canal. Use of the canal to pump water from the streets of the city into Lake Pontchartrain grew with the city. The Claiborne Canal connected with the 17th and Upperline Canal system via a canal along Dublin Avenue; thus the canal served to carry rain water to the lake from the majority of Uptown New Orleans above the New Basin Canal. Another canal, Hoey's Canal, was added connecting to the Upperline from up river to help drain the back of the Jefferson Parish communities along the riverfront, now known as "Old Jefferson". Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1151, 1395 KB) Summary Back (Lake Pontchartrain facing) side of the Metarie Pumping Station over the 17th Street Canal, on the border of New Orleans and Metarie, Louisiana. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1151, 1395 KB) Summary Back (Lake Pontchartrain facing) side of the Metarie Pumping Station over the 17th Street Canal, on the border of New Orleans and Metarie, Louisiana. ...
A steam engine is an external combustion heat engine that makes use of the thermal energy that exists in steam, converting it to mechanical work. ...
The New Basin Canal, also known as the New Orleans Canal and the New Canal, was a shipping canal in New Orleans, Louisiana from the 1830s through the 1940s. ...
In 1894, "17th Street" was renamed "Palmetto Street" (later redesignated Palmetto Avenue), but the canal continued to be popularly known by the old street name.
In 1899 a new pumping station was opened atop the Canal a couple blocks back from Metairie Road. In the early 20th century new high-efficiency pumps designed by A. Baldwin Wood were installed, and remain in operation. 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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Albert Baldwin Wood (December 1, 1879 - May 10, 1956) was an inventor and engineer from New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
At the start of the 21st century Pumping Station 6, or the Metairie Pumping Station, astride the Canal had 15 pumps capable of moving over six billion gallons of water a day through the station. Run off from substantial areas of Uptown New Orleans, Metairie, and surrounding neighborhoods drains into the canals and basins on the River side of the pumping station, which pulls the water up into the portion of the 17th Street Canal flowing in to Lake Pontchartrain. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Uptown is a large area of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
20th Century: Residential development of the "Back of Town" When the Station 6 was constructed, it was at the "back" end of the developed part of town. As the area along side the canal closer to the lake was largely undeveloped swamp, it was originally of little concern if waters pumped out of the city topped the canal and flowed into the swamp during heavy rains.
 A portion of the 17th Street Canal, looking lakeward from behind the Metairie Road Pumping Station. Note the levees topped with concrete flood walls. In the late 1920s and the 1930s, a project dredged fill along the lakefront, creating new land in what had been Lake Pontchartrain and creating a sizable levee along the lake side. However no efforts were made to raise the swampland between Metairie Ridge and the new lakefront fill. The areas along the Canal from Metairie Ridge to the Lake were substantially developed for residential use after World War II, and levees along the "back" sections of the Canal were raised. The water level of the canal is often significantly higher than the surrounding streets. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x750, 434 KB) Summary New Orleans: An intact portion of the 17th Street Canal (notorious for the flooding after Hurricane Katrina. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x750, 434 KB) Summary New Orleans: An intact portion of the 17th Street Canal (notorious for the flooding after Hurricane Katrina. ...
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Additional smaller pumping stations were built to add drainage water to the canal from areas along its length.
After Hurricane Betsy improved flood protection for the city and its canals to cope with storm surge from hurricanes was mandated, resulting in increasing the size and height of the canal levees further. Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. ...
In 1998 Hurricane Georges elevated the level of Lake Pontchartrain, pushing lake waters into the canal. A report noted that there was at least one place where the water came within inches of topping the floodwall. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Hurricane Georges was the second most destructive storm of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season. ...
An upgrade of the Canal levees, floodwalls, and bridges began in 1999. The Canal was considered in good shape at the start of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, shattering previous records on repeated occasions. ...
Hurricane Katrina After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the 17th Street Canal Levee was breached over a two city-block wide length on the New Orleans side, contributing to extensive flooding in New Orleans. Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa) Damages $75 billion (2005 USD) (costliest Atlantic hurricane in history) Fatalities ≥1,836 total Areas affected Bahamas, South Florida, Cuba, Louisiana (especially Greater New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida Panhandle, most of eastern North America Part of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Katrina was the...
A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, to raise), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial embankment or dike, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. ...
For two days after the storm, the Fox News television network repeatedly showed helicopter footage which they identified by narration and caption as the 17th Street Canal breech, but was actually a breech in the Industrial Canal, near the other side of the city. On 31 August Senator David Vitter corrected the network on air, but captions mislabeling the footage continued to be aired for hours more. Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ...
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The Industrial Canal is a 5. ...
David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961), American politician, is a Senator from Louisiana. ...
Investigations into the breach On 10 November 2005, an article in the Times-Picayune revealed that sonar soundings discovered that the steel sheet pilings of the levee floodwall were 7 feet less deep than engineering specifications. Sample pilings pulled up were found to be of the length specified in the design, but it was then revealed that this length was less than the actual depth of the canal, in retrospect an obvious engineering mistake. Current analysis strongly suggests that the catastrophic breech was due to faulty design, rather than storm and water conditions more severe than the levee and storm wall system of the canal was intended to survive. November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The New Orleans Times-Picayune is the major daily newspaper serving New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
It also became public knowledge that homes in the area near what would become the breach were expericing problems with flooding in their yards from seepage from the canal, which they repeatedly reported. The Orleans Levee Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who share responsibility for the levees, stated afterwards that they had been unaware of this. This article needs to be wikified. ...
United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. ...
Further investigations have confirmed that the canal floodwall failed catestrophically at significantly lower water level than the top of the floodwall due to faulty engineering. The Metairie side of the Canal was no better built the Orleans side, and portions of the floodwalls showed signs of displacement; the Metairie side could have experienced similar failure if pressure on the canal had not been relived by the failure on the Orleans side.
After Katrina In January of 2006 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it had finished the temporary repairs of the breached section of the levee, and construction of more permanent repairs would commence. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The future of the 17th Street Canal is likely to see changes in design. While plans are not finalized, it is likely that a new pumping station will be constructed at the lake edge of the canal, which will serve not only to improve pumping capacity but also to act as a barrier to storm surge and lake flooding; the building would be constructed to act as an additional levee. As a temporary measure until such a new station can be built, storm surge barrier gates at the lake end of the canal were became operational shortly after the start of the 2006 Hurricane Season. While the floodgate includes some pumps, it is signifantly less than the capacity of the canal before Katrina, raising concerns that while the floodgates could protect from Lake storm surge, heavy rains could flood portions of the city while the gates are closed because it could not be pumped out. There is talk about expropriating homes on either side of the canal in order to construct wider and more stable levees along its length. Eminent domain (US), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland), compulsory acquisition (Australia) or expropriation (Canada, South Africa) in common law legal systems is the lawful power of the state to expropriate private property without the owners consent, either for its own use or on behalf of...
See also Drainage has been a major concern since the founding of New Orleans in the early 18th century, and an important factor in the citys history. ...
The London Avenue Canal in New Orleans, Louisiana does not connect Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River. ...
The Industrial Canal is a 5. ...
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