North America. Atlantic/Gulf Coastal Plain.

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North America

Atlantic/Gulf Coastal Plain

Andrew 8/24/92

Chesapeake Bay

Annapolis, MD

Barrier Island formation

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse moved in 1999

Corolla, NC, north of Duck

Florida’s Crystal Coast, between Pensacola and Panama City

Grayton Beach, NW FL

VA Beach, VA

Carolina Bay, SE NC

Padre Island, TX

1900 Galveston, TX Hurricane

Venice, Italy’s Lido

Holland, Netherlands at the Zuider Zee

London, England on the Thames

New Orleans, Lower 9 th Ward

Katrina, 8/29/2005

New Orleans 8/27/05 New Orleans 8/30/05

Industrial Canal Breach Tulane Ave., 9/11/05

Katrina Refugees

Oil dispersal agents = water and bottom pollutants.

BP’s Deepwater Horizon Spill 5/26/10

Mississippi River headwaters, St. Paul, MN

Industrial (point source) and non-industrial (run off) pollution already contaminate the MS River at St. Paul, MN By the time the river reaches New Orleans, its water has been through many factories, agricultural fields, and people, yet it regularly wins tastes tests!

Mississippi “Delta” and terrace

MS River Delta, Cotton country

Anatomy of an alluvial river valley

MS River delta, a physiographic feature NOLA

US Army Corps of Engineers’ levees were built over the “slave levees”

The Old River Control Structure, north of Baton Rouge The ORCS routes water down the Atchafalaya River in high water.

ORCS Lock

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