Louisiana's Coastal Land Loss

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Science

 

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Bart B

 

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January 11, 2013

 

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University

 

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Louisiana has lost around 1,900 square miles since the 1930's, accounting for 90% of the coastal marsh loss in the lower 48 states (USGS 2003). Various articles from Louisiana research centers and environmental preservation groups have been gathered in order to provide valuable information on what is causing the problem and how to fix it...
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As long as people have been living in the surrounding area of the Mississippi River, they have been building levees. "By 1812, settlers built levees on the east bank to Baton Rouge, 130 miles upstream, and on the west bank as far as Pointe Coupee, 165 miles upstream" (Tibbetts 2006). While they keep our homes from flooding, levees do not allow the soils that are carried by the water to deposit in the floodplains, thus preventing the coast from expanding and doing the opposite...
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