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Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈ p ɒ n tʃ ə t r eɪ n / PON-chə-trayn; [1] French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers an area of 630 square miles (1,600 km 2 ) with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet (3.7 to 4.3 m).
The southern end of the causeway at Metairie, Louisiana, in 1998. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38 ...
Slidell / s l aɪ ˈ d ɛ l / is a city on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 28,781 at the 2020 census, [2] making it the sixteenth-most populous city in Louisiana. [3] It is part of the New Orleans−Metairie−Kenner metropolitan statistical area.
Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, [2] its population was 13,192. Mandeville is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12. It is located directly across the lake from the city of New Orleans and its southshore suburbs.
A tropical storm warning remained in place from Intracoastal City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border, which included the New Orleans metro area and Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain.
Within the state of Louisiana, the highway travels 31 miles (50 km) [1] from the national southern terminus at US 90 in New Orleans to the Mississippi state line south of Picayune. From New Orleans East, US 11 crosses Lake Pontchartrain on the nearly five-mile-long (8.0 km) Maestri Bridge.
While the bridge was opened to public Tuesday evening, a "rolling fog convoy" is still in effect on the Causeway as of 10:00 a.m. Wednesday as portions of southeast Louisiana and southern ...
For the next 22 miles (35 km), US 51 travels concurrently with the elevated four-lane interstate through the thickly wooded swamp lying between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas. This twin-span concrete trestle is known as the Manchac Swamp Bridge and is the second-longest bridge over water in the United States.