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Balancing Acts
At 630 square miles, Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain is about the size of Columbia County and can be crossed via a twenty-four-mile causeway that hovers over the water like a balance beam, connecting New Orleans to Mandeville. For eight miles of the …