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Urban Waters Partnership

Photo Gallery for Lake Pontchartrain Area/New Orleans (Louisiana)

New Canal Lighthouse

New Canal Lighthouse. Source: LPBF

Dr King 4th Grade Class Learns About History of Kites

Dr King 4th Grade Class Learns About History of Kites for Kite Mapping Project. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

Dr King 4th Grade Students Experimenting with Photography at Bayou Bienvenue

Dr King 4th Grade Student Experimenting with Photography at Bayou Bienvenue. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

Dr King 4th Grade Students Learn About Bayou Bienvenue

Dr King 4th Grade Students Learn About Bayou Bienvenue. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Build Kite for Mapping Project

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Build Kite for Mapping Project. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Fly Kite for Mapping Project

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Fly Kite for Mapping Project. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Learn How Kites Work

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Learn How Kites Work. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Learn How Kites Work

GWNO and Public Laboratory Work With Dr King 4th Graders to Learn How Kites Work. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

GWNO Green Team at Bayou Bienvenue for Social Science Day

GWNO Green Team at Bayou Bienvenue for Social Science Day. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

Sunflower for Phytoremediation Experiment at GWNO Earth Lab on St. Claude Avenue

Sunflower for Phytoremediation Experiment at GWNO Earth Lab on St. Claude Avenue. Source: Groundwork New Orleans

New Canal Lighthouse Ribbon Cutting on April 19, 2013

New Canal Lighthouse Ribbon Cutting on April 19, 2013. Source: Stacye Palmer-McBride, NPS

Ecosystem Restoration of Urban Forest

Ecosystem Restoration of Urban Forest. Source: Woodlands Conservancy

New Canal Lighthouse Ribbon Cutting on April 19, 2013

New Canal Lighthouse Ribbon Cutting on April 19, 2013

New Canal Lighthouse. John Kinabrew, the tour guide, rang the Lighthouse's bell

June 2013 Face-to-Face Meeting field trip at New Canal Lighthouse. John Kinabrew, the tour guide, rang the Lighthouse's bell.

Meeting field trip at Pontchartrain Beach

June 2013 Face-to-Face Meeting field trip at Pontchartrain Beach (l to r: Danny Wiegand, EPA; Jeanne-Marie Ganucheau, Senator Landrieu's Office; John Lopez, LPBF; Scott Hemmerling, USGS; and Adele Cardenas de Mallot, EPA)

Shoreline Erosion at Potential Pier Site

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - Shoreline Erosion at Potential Pier Site

Student on boat getting ready to take water samples

June 2013 Face-to-Face Meeting field trip at UNO's CERF (Summer camp program for local students)

Students returning from a sampling trip with LDWF biologists.

June 2013 Face-to-Face Meeting field trip at UNO CERF. Students returning from a sampling trip with LDWF biologists.

 tour of the future Lafitte Greenway with Kimberly Gleffe, Executive Director of the River Revitalization Foundation in Milwaukee

September 20th tour of the future Lafitte Greenway with Kimberly Gleffe, Executive Director of the River Revitalization Foundation in Milwaukee, and Ghassan Korban, Commissioner of the Milwaukee Department of Public Works.

 
 tour of the future Lafitte Greenway with Kimberly Gleffe, Executive Director of the River Revitalization Foundation in Milwaukee

September 20th tour of the future Lafitte Greenway with Kimberly Gleffe, Executive Director of the River Revitalization Foundation in Milwaukee, and Ghassan Korban, Commissioner of the Milwaukee Department of Public Works.

Groundwork New Orleans Bayou Blitz 1

Groundwork New Orleans Bayou Blitz 1 on October 9th

Wild Hog Trap with Ken Litzenberger of USFWS

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - Wild Hog Trap with Ken Litzenberger of USFWS

Wild Hog Trap

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - Wild Hog Trap

Picture of a wetland marsh

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - GIWW

Picture of a trail leading to a wetland marsh

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - Potential Pier Site

Picture of a tree growing in water due to shoreline erosion

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - Shoreline Erosion at Potential Pier Site

Shoreline Erosion at Potential Pier Site

Site visit to East End Area on November 7th - Shoreline Erosion at Potential Pier Site

Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Press Event November 15, 2013 – Photos taken by Darryl Malek-Wiley, Sierra Club

Charles Allen handing Mayorial Document to Amanda Moore

Charles Allen handing Mayorial Document to Amanda Moore

Garret Graves (CPRA) speaking, Arthur Johnson (CSED) watching

Garret Graves (CPRA) speaking, Arthur Johnson (CSED) watching

Close up picture of Bayou and MRGO sign

Bayou and MRGO sign close up

A raft of Coots

"Uninvited guests" a raft of Coots

Crowd watching and listening

Crowd watching and listening

Mayor dedicates rain garden, discusses climate change

EPA officials and the mayor  during a press event for NORA's rain garden in Filmore Gardens on February 6, 2014

EPA officials and the mayor  during a press event for NORA's rain garden in Filmore Gardens on February 6, 2014

Signage for the Filmore Gardens NORA Green Pilot Rain Garden Program.

Signage for the Filmore Gardens NORA Green Pilot Rain Garden Program.

The Filmore Gardens rain garden is one of five demonstration projects across the City of New Orleans converting vacant properties into green infrastructure

The Filmore Gardens rain garden is one of five demonstration projects across the City of New Orleans converting vacant properties into green infrastructure.

NORA Filmore Gardens rain garden press event, February 6, 2014

NORA Filmore Gardens rain garden press event, February 6, 2014.

January 9, 2014 - Lafitte Greenway Tour with HUD Senior Advisor, Henk Ovink, and the Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design teams

Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design Tour with Henk Ovink, HUD Senior Advisor

Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design Tour with Henk Ovink, HUD Senior Advisor.

Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design Tour - Local community activist, Amelda Paul, addressing teams.

Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design Tour - Local community activist, Amelda Paul, addressing teams.

Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design Tour - Local community activist, Amelda Paul, addressing teams

Hurricane Sandy Rebuild by Design Tour - Local community activist, Amelda Paul, addressing teams.