BP/Gulf Oil Gusher Oil Reported in Lake Pontchartrain by Gary Kopycinski on July 6, 2010 Gary Kopycinski Author More in BP/Gulf Oil Gusher: Statement of Chris Canfield One Year After Deepwater Horizon Explosion April 20, 2011 Groups Tell Congress: Get Together and Get Gulf Restoration Done April 20, 2011 BP’s Criminal Negligence Exposed April 20, 2011 HOUMA, La.–(ENEWSPF)–July 5, 2010. Oil observers reported sheen and tar balls in the Rigolets and Lake Pontchartrain this morning to the Slidell Forward Operating Base of the Deepwater Horizon Response.