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NOLA.com
April 20, 2018
The weekend also includes tall ship sailings on Lake Pontchartrain, though those trips are completely sold out. Tall Ships New Orleans overlaps with NOLA Navy Week, which runs April 19-25, 2018. Navy Week ships that will be open to the public for free tours include the U.S. Navy's USS Kearsarge, theÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 14, 2018
After getting a handful of reports that the fish had shown up at the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, we left out of the public launch in Madisonville before sunrise and got on a great bite while most commuters were still driving to work. We fished beautiful water along the northern half of the 24-mile-long bridge.
NOLA.com
April 14, 2018
Both the northbound and southbound Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bridges are closed due to severe storms Saturday April 14. (Photo by David ... The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway was closed in both directions Saturday morning (April 14) as violent storms moved across southeast Louisiana. Options forÃâà...
The Weather Channel
April 11, 2018
Brady Skaggs of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation said low winds, sunny days and river water released into the lake during the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway all probably helped the bloom grow quickly, he told the New Orleans Advocate. The spillway was opened as snowmelt increased,Ãâà...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
March 27, 2018
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation is advising the public to stay away from a harmful algae bloom. That goes for your pets too. The Foundation is keeping a close eye on the bloom that we're told can cause serious health problems for both humans and animals. It's been hard to spot lately because ofÃâà...
The Advocate
March 27, 2018
The torrent of nutrient-rich Mississippi River water that officials have diverted into Lake Pontchartrain in recent days to ease pressure on area river levees has also had a less desirable side effect: algae blooms. The blue-green patches have been spotted along the lake's north shore, stretching from nearÃâà...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
March 27, 2018
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation is warning residents of the presence of harmful algae blooms found in Lake Pontchartrain. Algal blooms, or “Harmful Algal Blooms," can be toxic and the LPBF advises the public to keep themselves and their pets away from the blooms. Aerial surveillance hasÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 26, 2018
That conclusion is based on aerial photographs taken by Patrick Quigley with Gulf Coast Air Photo, and observations by boaters, both of which found a large area of green to blue-green material on the surface of the lake along the North Shore and on both sides of the northern third of the Lake PontchartrainÃâà...
WDSU New Orleans
March 26, 2018
Monday, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation took to the skies to capture aerial shots of algae that has moved in and started growing in Lake Pontchartrain. In the video above, you can see the presence of blue-green algae, or cyanobacterial blooms, near the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain.
Gentilly Messenger
March 22, 2018
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation's Spring Sweep is held in conjunction with the Great American Cleanup sponsored by Keep America Beautiful. The event involves volunteers, partners, and sponsors by cleaning curbs, ditches, and storm drains on city streets and rural roadways. Designated areasÃâà...
The Advocate
March 21, 2018
Advocate photo by SOPHIA GERMER -- Pelarr Edwards with Boys Hope Girls Hope volunteers to help pick up trash along Lake Pontchartrain during the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation's annual Beach Sweep in New Orleans, Saturday September 19, 2015. The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation'sÃâà...
WWL
March 20, 2018
Fresh water from the river is now flowing at a rate of about 192-thousand cubic feet per second through the Spillway into brackish Lake Pontchartrain. Stephen Dematteo ran his crab traps on Monday. He says the cold and dirty river water is pushing crabs out of the lake. "It definitely dropped off right whenÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 11, 2018
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway has reopened after being shut down temporarily due to severe weather. The Causeway police issued the closure around 11:22 a.m., citing thunderstorms, high winds, crosswinds and poor visibility. Around 11:20 a.m., Causeway officials reported 60 mile per hour windsÃâà...
WWL First News
March 8, 2018
NORCO, La. (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began opening part of a 1930s flood control structure northwest of New Orleans on Thursday to divert water from a rising Mississippi River into nearby Lake Pontchartrain, a move that eases pressure on the city's levees but raises environmentalÃâà...
WWL
March 8, 2018
Video provided exclusively to WWL-TV reveals raw sewage has been flowing into Lake Pontchartrain at the city's Municipal Yacht Harbor for months and efforts to stop it so far have been unsuccessful. Residents at the boathouses that line the harbor's edge reported the smell of raw sewage as early as lastÃâà...
The Advocate
March 8, 2018
For the fourth time since 2008, federal officials are opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway, sending cold, fresh Mississippi River water tumbling into the normally brackish Lake Pontchartrain. This year's opening is starting small — beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday — with only eight of the spillway's 350 gates likelyÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 8, 2018
Officials with several federal agencies and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation have begun monitoring the environmental effects of opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway to lower water levels on the Mississippi River by moving part of its flow into Lake Pontchartrain. The spillway was opened ThursdayÃâà...
NOLA.com
February 21, 2018
Fog restrictions in effect on Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Updated February 21, 2018 at 6:59 AM ; Posted February 21, 2018 at 6:58 AM. Traffic restrictions were in effect Wednesday morning (Feb. 21) on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway because of dense fog, officials said. (File, David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | TheÃâà...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
February 20, 2018
For the past week, he has been monitoring the bloom seen from Slidell in the east, to the Tangipahoa River in the western part of Lake Pontchartrain. The foundation sent up a plane last week and captured images of several square miles of discolored water west of the Causeway. The blooms have alsoÃâà...
