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25 April 2005 Coleen Perilloux Landry

Where Once Was a Fishing Village

Today I visited a few Katrina victims in Lakeview in a neighborhood where only two houses in two miles are occupied and one of them is a trailer in the backyard. I did not take anything that could be a PaD so this will have to suffice.
This is the end of the infamous 17th Street Canal where it joins Lake Pontchartrain. Until August 29 this was where the fishermen of Bucktown kept their fishing boats and several seafood restaurants and homes lined the Canal. It has been misappropriated by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and they are installing floodgates there. Sort of like closing the barn door after all the horses have escaped.


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Buz Kiefer26-Apr-2006 19:18
If memory serves, when the Levee Board tried to close Bayou St. John with floor gates at the lakefront, environmental suits prevented them. I don't recall why they were prevented at the 17th Street canal though. Perhaps it was because the west side was in a different parish (inter-parish turf struggle?)or because the fishermen would not have had access to the lake.
Better to close it now than not at all, I say.
Cindy Flood26-Apr-2006 03:01
Nice documentary of the area.
Guest 26-Apr-2006 00:59
I used to park my 18 foot skiff there. So much for the shrimpers!