The New Orleans Landbridge provides protection to more than 1.5 million people in the Greater New Orleans area parishes by reducing some of the pressure storm surges can place on levees around Lake Pontchartrain. In addition, it acts as a flood buffer along Chef Menteur Highway, which is an important evacuation route.
The Bayou Bridge Pipeline, L’eau Est La Vie, and the struggle for Louisiana’s future.
The Mississippi has a 200-year delta cycle, slowly slithering from the Atchafalaya to her current mouth while depositing sediment at the various subdeltas in between. However, the natural freedom of the river had dire consequences for its nearby human inhabitants. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 caused the federal government to respond by contracting the Army Corps of Engineers to build dams and levee systems that constrained the Mississippi to its current location and consequently put an end to the river’s natural cycle.
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