Lake Pontchartrain is an eco-disaster after draining the Soup Bowl of chemicals, sewage and debris from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the storms, rain and precipitation, which followed. After New Orleans was drained we learned that although it could be considered a Toxic Waste dump by EPA standards it was not quite as bad as everyone thought. As the debate rages on about how to reduce the size of the city by allowing the water to retake part of New Orleans lower elevation areas, we now need to concentrate on what to do with Lake Ponchartrain.

Lake Ponchartrain was making a strong comeback in the years prior to Hurricane Katrina, as nature always does find a way to clean itself and renew. The environment is proving to be quite resilient indeed. One may wonder after the human race has been extinct how long it will take Mother Nature to bury all our cities, clean up our mess and grow over our civilizations? Judging from some of the past ancient civilizations we have discovered probably not as long as we think; nature is a lot tougher than we are and our present building materials are no match for her or the long time periods between geological periods.

Yet, we live in the present period and want to enjoy our Lakes, streams and oceans and Lake Pontchartrain was a place for boaters, fishing and fun. It is a shame to see it in such disrepair after we pumped out the sludge, sewage and chemicals. I would therefore like to propose that we coat the boats on lake with a special coating which will clean the lake as they cruise around on it. We have modern coatings and environmental dispensers, which can do this.

If we use Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (AUVs) to clean some of the underwater and bottom areas of the lake by delivering encapsulated timed release bio-remediation materials; we may find that we can clean the large volume of water very quickly. We would have to set up the AUVs in an underwater grid pattern and they could run on Solar Power and Electricity or Hydrogen Cell Hybrid Systems.

Then each boat on the Lake owned by individuals would get a