The Florida Canal or 40 Arpent Canal is a canal in Greater New Orleans and land down river.. The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France. ... The New Orleans Metropolitan Area, or Greater New Orleans, is the largest metropolitan area in Louisiana, centered around New Orleans. ...

a portion of the Florida Canal in back of Arabi. On the back side of the canal the levee and floodwall can be seen.

The canal was built in the 18th century colonial era of Louisiana, stetching from what is now the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, roughly parallelling the Mississippi River on the East Bank down through modern Saint Bernard Parish and part of the East Bank of Plaquemines. Colonial land grants commonly stretched 40 arpents back from the Mississippi River. The canal thus marked the back end of properties, mostly originally plantations. In this area this line happened to generally be about the limit of land useful for cultivation where the higher land of the natural river levee ended in swamp. The "40 Arpent Canal" was used by small vessels for commerce between nearby plantations; larger vessels and longer range shipping used the Mississippi. The earth moved to dig the canal was used to create a raised roadway on the River side of the canal, called the "Florida Walk". (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Faubourg Marigny or simply Marigny is a neighborhood in the downtown section of New Orleans, Louisiana, just down river from the famous French Quarter. ... Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot Motto: Official website: http://www. ... This article is about the river in the United States. ... St. ... Plaquemines Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. ... An arpent is the name give to a unit of length and to a unit of area. ... A plantation is an intentional planting of a crop, on a larger scale, usually for uses other than cereal production or pasture. ... 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. ... A freshwater swamp This article is about the wetland type (a landform). ...

With development and the construction of additional perpendicular canals in the 19th and 20th century, the old 40 Arpent Canal was divided into severall discontinuous canals. Florida Walk became Florida Avenue, although discontinued in some areas either by being developed over or being allowed to fall back into wilderness. In some places such as New Orleans the remaining pieces of the canal became known as the "Florida Canal", while in parts of Saint Bernard and Plaquemines the old "40 Arpent Canal' name is still used. No longer used for shipping, the canal is still used for drainage, and in places some small pleasure and fishing boats. Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from a given area. ...

Down river from the Industrial Canal, the Florida Canal still marks the inland boundary of the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans and communites such as Arabi and Chalmette. The Industrial Canal is the common term for the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal (IHNC), a 5. ... Arabi is an unincorporated community located in St. ... The unincorporated community of Chalmette is the parish seat of St. ...

Levees and floodwalls constructed on the back side of the canal help protect settled areas from flooding. These levees in back of the canal were overtopped by storm surge channeled in by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet during Hurricane Katrina in 2005; to do this the storm surge needed to first top the larger levees abutting the MR-GO and travel through the wetlands between MR-GO and the 40 Arpent Canal back levee. In December of 2005 it was announced that in Saint Bernard Parish the 40 Arpent Canal back levee would be increased in height to help offer some temporary protection until more comprehensive work could be done on MR-GO. 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. ... ... The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (also known as MRGO, MR-GO or Mr. ... Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named tropical storm, fifth hurricane, third major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...