Surge Consortium workshops held

Breton-Borgne Surge Consortium Workshops Held. PC established two regional “surge consortiums” to promote regional collaboration between parishes, levee boards, municipalities etc.  to address hurricane storm surge risk. As Michael Hopkins,…

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PC Hosts Open House for Educators

PC’s new Lighthouse Learning Lab Pontchartrain Conservancy hosts open house for educators in the Basin. On a lovely summer evening, educators from around Pontchartrain Basin attended Pontchartrain Conservancy Educator Open…

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Dr. Theryn Henkel talks Caernarvon

The changing landscape around the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion from 1998 to 2015. Land gain was not visible until 2005. Prior to that Big Mar was filling in with sediment and…

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Thank you to AmeriCorps

All four of our 2018-2019 AmeriCorps Members. Education Assistant Laine Farber (top left), Coastal Program Volunteer Coordinator and Field Science Tech Eden Krolopp (top right), Outreach Coordinator Briana Cervantes (bottom…

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Spillways and Floodways

Why do we open the spillway and what does it affect? Update Click to hear it straight from our scientist Picture of a previous Bonnet Carre Spillway opening courtesy of the…

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