Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain recently plummeted nearly three feet on July 23, allowing students to walk on the dunes that emerged in the water. “I’ve never seen it in my lifetime in the summer,” said Milton Cambre, […]

Congress has approved four years after okaying the funding for a $760 million hurricane protection levee to protect the east bank of St. John the Baptist Parish and parts of neighboring St. Charles and St. James parishes from storm surges that could be caused by the so-called 100-year storm or a hurricane with a one percent chance of coming up any year. […]

St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes have received an okay for $760 million federal funding needed to build levees that will protect the east bank of both parishes when storms swell the waters in Lake Pontchartrain in the future. It is part of a larger $2.6 billion supplemental spending bill. […]