Rigolets
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| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
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| Mouth | Lake Borgne |
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| Tributaries | |
| • left | Old Pearl River |
| • right | Sawmill Pass |
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The Rigolets is a 8-mile-long (13 km) deepwater tidal strait in Louisiana. "Rigolets" comes from the word rigole, French for 'trench' or 'gutter'. The name is now locally pronounced "RIG-uh-leez".
The strait begins at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. and follows a generally eastward course to Lake Borgne, a lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico, and finally to the Gulf of Mexico, where it ends at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.. Along with nearby Chef Menteur Pass, the Rigolets connects Lake Pontchartrain and Lake St. Catherine in Louisiana to Lake Borgne, and then to the Gulf of Mexico.[1][2] It forms the boundary between New Orleans (Orleans Parish) and St. Tammany Parish.
Tidal pass
As a deepwater tidal pass, the Rigolets helps supply salt water from the Gulf to Lake Pontchartrain.[3] Tidal scouring has produced a deep pit in the lake at the western mouth of the strait.[4] Since the Rigolets is a channel through which Gulf storm surges can approach the New Orleans area, there have been proposals to construct floodgates to try to protect the city, especially since the destructiveness of hurricanes in the early 21st century.[5]
Fort Pike
The United States constructed Fort Pike following the War of 1812 to protect passage on the Rigolets.[6] The fort was abandoned in 1890 when it was no longer considered necessary.
Bridges
The Rigolets is spanned by two bridges. The western terminus of the U.S. Route 90 Rigolets Bridge is located immediately north of Fort Pike. It was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and required major repairs.[7] Farther south, CSX Transportation crosses the Rigolets on a 4,555-ft (1,388-meter) railroad bridge.[8] Hurricane damage there from Katrina included shifted spans and the loss of timber decking.[9]
References
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Comprehensive Habitat Management Plan for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin" (PDF). Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. 2005-11-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-03-16. Retrieved 2006-04-15.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Connor, Paul, Jr.; Maygarden, Dinah; Penland, Shea. "Basin Geology - Bathymetry: Bathymetric Map of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana". Environmental Atlas of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. Center for Coastal & Regional Marine Studies, Coastal & Marine Geology Program. USGS Open File Report 02-206. Archived from the original on 2023-12-01. Retrieved 2006-04-17.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Judge, Tom (November 2005). "Bridging to recovery: a massive effort to rebuild six major bridges following Hurricane Katrina's devastation is now under way on CSXT's Gulf Coast main trunk". Railway Age. Vol. 206, no. 11. Bristol: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. pp. 46–47. eISSN 2161-511X. ISSN 0033-8826. Template:ProQuest, Template:EBSCOhost, Template:Gale, Factiva RWA0000020051203e1b100013. Archived from the original on 2006-02-10.
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