CLICK HERE for a Google Maps Link to Goose Point, which is now part of the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge.
Early planning for the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway included a proposal for building a bridge between Milneburg in New Orleans and Lacombe, with Goose Point being the northern end of the structure.
One can only imagine what Lacombe would look like today if the causeway had been built to tie into Goose Point.
A couple more views of Goose Point in 1975...
Goose Point
The LSU Law School has an interesting take on the wetlands south of Lacombe. "Goose Point is a marsh area north of New Orleans. It is on an ancient Pleistocene plain, not river sediment. It has no water pumping or levees, no canals, no oil and gas production, or the other human-driven factors that are claimed to cause wetlands loss. Yet Goose Point displays the same patterns of land loss as regions of the delta. Goose Point, along with the rest of the Mississippi Delta, is very well characterized geologically. Goose Point is crossed by faults and is subject to tectonic subsidence, i.e., deep level subsidence that has nothing to do with compaction of river sediments. This deep subsidence and movement of fault blocks, combined with sea level rise, is sufficient to cause the typical land loss seen in Louisiana coastal wetlands."
