{"id":5489,"date":"2011-08-24T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2011-08-24T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T14:34:29","slug":"outfall-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/outfall-canals\/","title":{"rendered":"outfall canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5492\" title=\"outfall-canal\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5490\" title=\"diazr_lafitte-outfall-canal\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diazr_lafitte-outfall-canal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"385\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Lafitte <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvn.usace.army.mil\/hps2\/hps_outfall_canals.asp\">Outfall Canal<\/a>, one of the three massive concrete slits that drains New Orleans into Lake Pontchartrain in severe rainfall.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5493\" title=\"outfall-canal-2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-2.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5497\" title=\"diazr_orleans-canal-near-lakefront\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diazr_orleans-canal-near-lakefront.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5491\" title=\"diazr_orleans-canal-at-city-park\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diazr_orleans-canal-at-city-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"345\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Orleans Canal]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5494\" title=\"outfall-canal-3\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-3.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/outfall-canal-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5496\" title=\"diazr_london-ave-canal-at-i10\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diazr_london-ave-canal-at-i101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"363\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>[The London Avenue Canal; photograph at I-10 crossing.]<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Photographs of New Orleans&#8217; outfall canals, by reader Ramiro Diaz (and supplemented with Google Maps imagery). \u00a0Diaz works with Waggonner Ball Architects, a New Orleans-based firm which has been doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/151846\/comprehensive-integrated-sustainable-water-management-system-for-the-greater-new-orleans-region-waggonner-ball-architects\/\">a great deal of work<\/a> on water management, infrastructures, and public space in New Orleans since the Katrina disaster, including sponsoring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchdialogues.com\">&#8220;Dutch Dialogues&#8221;<\/a>, a series of &#8220;extended interactions&#8221; between &#8220;Dutch engineers, urban designers, landscape architects, city planners and soils\/hydrology experts&#8221; and their Louisianan counterparts. \u00a0More photographs can be seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/thebatture.com\/infrastructure\/\">Diaz&#8217;s website<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Lafitte Outfall Canal, one of the three massive concrete slits that drains New Orleans into Lake Pontchartrain in severe rainfall.] [Orleans Canal] [The London Avenue Canal; photograph at I-10 crossing.] [Photographs of New Orleans&#8217; outfall canals, by reader Ramiro Diaz (and supplemented with Google Maps imagery). \u00a0Diaz works with Waggonner Ball Architects, a New Orleans-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594,15],"tags":[118,559,230,635],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floods","category-infrastructure","tag-flood-control","tag-infrastructural-vernacular","tag-new-orleans","tag-ramiro-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}