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.
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 Orleans Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals. The 17th Street Canal forms a significant portion of the boundary between the city of New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana. The canal has also been known as the Metairie Outlet Canal and the Upperline Canal.
Pontchartrain. The canal, along with the Orleans Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals. The 17thStreetCanal forms a significant...
well below design thresholds (17thStreet and London Avenue Canals and also the northeast breach of the Industrial Canal). Others collapsed after a brief...
There are three outfall canals in New Orleans, Louisiana – the 17thStreet, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals. These canals are a critical element...
surrounding areas. The 17thStreetCanal on the western side of the city also suffered a break on the eastern side of the canal near the Metairie Hammond...
breaches in the city include the 17thStreetCanal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wide, navigable Industrial Canal, which left approximately 80%...
grachten (canals), about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges. The three main canals (Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht), dug in the 17th century during...
Ward" and misidentifying helicopter shots of the Industrial Canal breach as the 17thStreetCanal breach (which was actually at the nearly opposite end of...
level. The major breaches included the 17thStreetCanal levee, the Industrial Canal levee, and the London Avenue Canal flood wall. These breaches caused the...
Parish from Metairie Ridge back is the 17thStreetCanal. Going roughly from the river to the lake, the 17th Ward includes the Carrollton Riverbend area...
Black Hawk helicopters. The 17thStreetCanal levee repair was completed by September 5, 2005, and subsequently, the three canals were repaired all the way...
west of the Canal. Meanwhile, waters from storm-swollen Lake Pontchartrain poured into the city, first from a breach in the 17thStreetCanal, and then...
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The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The canal, along with the 17thStreetCanal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New...
Canal which breached either from the surge or the effects of being hit by a loose barge (the ING 4727). The London Avenue Canal and the 17thStreet Canal...
Lutheran High School Libraries Jefferson Parish Library Other Landmarks 17thStreetCanal Gold Mine on Airline Lafreniere Park LaSalle Park Pontiff Playground...
city included breaches at the 17thStreetCanal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wide, navigable Industrial Canal, which left approximately 80%...
American Heritage, April/May 2006. Marshall, Bob (November 30, 2005). "17thStreetCanal levee was doomed". The Times-Picayune. Archived from the original...
infrastructure systems, such as water supply, drainage of low-lying land, canals and removal of sewage to processing sites. A pumping station is an integral...
various sections in 1871. The canal's Lockkeeper's House, built in 1837 near the present-day intersection of 17thStreet and Constitution Avenue NW, was...
2005, a federal floodwall atop a levee on the 17thStreetCanal, the largest and most important drainage canal for the city, gave way here causing flooding...
refer to the confluence of the 17thStreetCanal and Lake Pontchartrain. See: "Interim Closure Structure at 17th St. Canal". Task Force Guardian. Archived...
Lutheran High School Libraries Jefferson Parish Library Other Landmarks 17thStreetCanal Gold Mine on Airline Lafreniere Park LaSalle Park Pontiff Playground...
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