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Okwata Meant Wide Water. Louisiana Has Spent a Century Engineering an Estuary It Calls a Lake.

Before it was Pontchartrain, the water north of Nola was Okwata, the Choctaw word for wide water. The name described an estuary, not a lake. A century of engineering the basin as if it were a contained freshwater lake is now colliding with a dissolving coast and more frequent spillway releases.