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An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans From Nature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Hardee, Thomas Sydenham (1878). "Topical and Drainage Map of New Orleans and Surroundings From Recent Surveys and Investigations". Civil Engineer. Kendall, John (1922). History of New Orleans. Lewis Publishing Company.
New Orleans is situated between the Mississippi River to the south and Lake Pontchartrain to the north and is approximately 100 miles (160 km) upstream from the mouth of the Mississippi River. [8] The Orleans Metro drainage sub-basin. Nearly all water in this sub-basin is eventually drained into the outfall canals.
The London Avenue Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, used for pumping rain water into Lake Pontchartrain. The canal runs through the 7th Ward of New Orleans from the Gentilly area to the Lakefront. It is one of the three main drainage canals responsible for draining rainwater from the main basin of New Orleans.
The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The canal, along with the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal , form the New Orleans Outfall Canals . The current version of the canal is about 2 km long, running along the up-river side of City Park , through the Lakeview and Lakeshore neighborhood, and into Lake ...
Before Katrina arrived, the 17th Street Canal was the largest and most important drainage canal in the city of New Orleans. Operating with Pumping Station No. 6 – which at that time was the most powerful pumping station in the world – the 17th Street Canal was capable of conveying 9,200 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water, more than the ...
The Carondelet Canal, also known as the Old Basin Canal, was a canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., operating from 1794 into the 1920s – nearly 135 years.. Carondelet Canal turning basin in the early 20th century This drainage canal, in use in the early 21st century, in back of a Broad Street pumping station near St. Louis Street, ran parallel to the old Carondelet Canal, which was ...
Painting by Thure de Thulstrup commemorating the event's centennial, now in the Louisiana State Museum. The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then briefly back to French rule before being acquired by the United States in the Louisiana ...
Throughout New Orleans' history, until the early 20th century when medical and scientific advances ameliorated the situation, the city suffered repeated epidemics of yellow fever and other tropical and infectious diseases. [70] In the first half of the 19th century, yellow fever epidemics killed over 150,000 people in New Orleans. [71]