The barrier is designed to reduce the risk of storm damage to some of the region's most vulnerable areas - New Orleans East, metro New Orleans, the 9th Ward, and St. Bernard Parish.
Salt Lake City | Swan Lake | Lake Superior | Lake Erie | Lake Michigan | Lake Placid, New York | Lake District | Lake Ontario | Lake Como | Great Barrier Reef | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Lake Geneva | lake | Lake Tahoe | Lake Huron | Lake Constance | Lake Ladoga | Lake Victoria | Lake Placid | Lake Garda | Lake Onega | Lake | Silver Lake | Lake County | Lake County, Florida | Lake Biwa | Lake Turkana | Lake Lugano | Saranac Lake, New York | Lake Tanganyika |
The building of the floodgate was authorized by Congress in 2006 and will operate in tandem with the Lake Borgne Surge Reduction Barrier to reduce the risk of storm surge damage to some of the New Orleans region's most vulnerable areas – New Orleans East, metro New Orleans, the Ninth Ward, Gentilly and St. Bernard Parish.