LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN History - mysteries solved, myths busted
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Host: Kyle Crosby
Camera/Editor: Michael Malley
Coordinator: Samantha Rohr
Transcript:
This is Lake Pontchartrain and in the background is the longest bridge over water in the world! The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway has had that distinguished title since its completion in the 1950s. The bridge links the New Orleans suburb of Metairie to Mandeville across this massive lake known as Lake Pontchartrain.
Formed around 4000 years ago, Lake Pontchartrain was an essential trade hub for native American tribes and was called Okwa-ta or “Wide Water”. Covering 630 sq miles, the brackish lake is 40 miles long and 25 miles wide with an average depth of about 12 feet, which isn’t that deep considering other lakes of similar size. In fact, this lake is more like a lagoon since it gains access to the Gulf of Mexico through a tiny passage to the East called the Rigolets connecting it to Lake Borgne and then to the Gulf.
The first European to view the lake was the French Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, who passed through the region in 1699 and named the lake for Louis II, count of Pontchartrain in France. This estuary is home to millions of endangered species that come here to “save their species”.
The lake was heavily polluted in the 1970s and 80s, but the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation cleaned it up with the help of an unlikely ally. The clam life in the lake is very healthy and, since they’re bottom feeders, they help filter the water in the lake. One thing that people need to keep in mind is this: everything that goes into the storm drains will end up in the lake. Every cigarette butt, every hand grenade, every drop of rain water drains unfiltered into the lake, so for the love of everything holy, use a fucking garbage can.
Hurricane Katrina caused Lake waters to inundate New Orleans and surrounding communities with a devastating storm surge. Every time hurricanes come this way, the lake floods along the shoreline. When strong storms hit the state, it can bring debris and sometimes animals from other places in the hurricane’s path. For example, a large python was found on Grand Isle beach after having washed up in the surf. Now with a lake this big, there’s no telling what lurks below the surface.
Come take a walk along the lakefront or take your kayak out on a sunny day on your next trip to Louisiana. I’m Kyle Crosby and this is Louisiana Dread.
Love your accent, had to show my wife this is what most Nola accents sound like, not the Hollywood things
Much appreciated! I’m not even from New Orleans, but it’s a south Lafourche/ Grand Isle accent. Real Louisiana stuff 😂
@@LouisianaDreadi knew I detected some "down the road" in your speech 😂 I'm originally from Empire, miss it so much!
Definitely an interesting watch!
Thank you my friend!⚜️
Wow Im not gona lie Im from UK i know a lil bout louisiana new orleans but i heard of the lake cus of that video of the girl getting chucked in and i wanted to know more about the lake I never heard of it …… to my surprise i found this captivating young gentlemen who somehow managed to make a lake i never heard of that is not too interesting and made it so enganging thru how he talks. Real good storyteller. Especially when you started going off about trash cans. Very well delivered video you should consider going into longer form videos , obscure topics , Wendigoon is a good example of someone who is enganging and makes videos like i described and maybe you vould do something like that too. Just a thought
I appreciate that feedback and will certainly check out that channel. Anytime someone has constructive criticism, I'm always down to hear it as it makes the content better for everyone.
I love this idea
Wonderful
Good Job Kyle, just what I needed to know.
It's my pleasure!
Alright, who else here from the song by Ludo?
I’ve never heard of him.
Rest you soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends
Crawfish til the bitter end
I was fr trying to find an animation with that song because of curiosity and found this
In the 1950s and 60s shells drehged from the bottom of Lake Ponchartrain were New Orleans equvilant of gravel. Unpaved streets and shoulders of streets were covered with fresh shells regularly, one of the reasons the lake water was dirty,
That’s fascinating! Thank you for the info.
Is it true that you can see the Earth's curvature in that lake?
Yes! Check out my history of the Causeway Bridge video and you can see it for yourself!👏⚜️🤘
A standing body of water doesn’t have the ability to show curvature on its surface.
The globe earth is a lie
Q: is there still a house having belonged to Marquis Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil on the lake? Thanks
I’m not too sure. Where would it be around? It’s a big lake.
@@LouisianaDread Let me see if I can narrow it down. It would have been a governor's mansion as well.
Post malone on the presentation!
😂😂 Posty baby
Technically it is an estuary, but you do you! :)
Two things can be true.
He states that at 0:45
Who throwing hand grenades in the storm drain?
Must be tourists because it’s rare to see a local drink one of those lol
@@LouisianaDread 🤣🤣🤣
That lake also can get very rough in the blink of an eye
You’re definitely right about that! Very dangerous.
Idk why anyone litters!? It’s absolutely disgusting. why ??? My biggest pet peeve
It’s awful and truly a glimpse of the true nature of an individual. It gets me so angry when I see it.
Could be sharks in there
Could be all kinds of things in there!
Camping by the mouth of the Tchefuncte in ‘79 we found a baby shark dead on the beach where it hadn’t been the day before, after we’d been wading in the area. Didn’t go in the water much after that.