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1 North America

2 Atlantic/Gulf Coastal Plain

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7 Andrew 8/24/92

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13 Chesapeake Bay

14 Annapolis, MD

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16 Barrier Island formation

17 Cape Hatteras Lighthouse moved in 1999

18 Corolla, NC, north of Duck

19 Florida’s Crystal Coast, between Pensacola and Panama City

20 Grayton Beach, NW FL

21 VA Beach, VA

22 Carolina Bay, SE NC

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24 Padre Island, TX

25 1900 Galveston, TX Hurricane

26 Venice, Italy’s Lido

27 Holland, Netherlands at the Zuider Zee

28 London, England on the Thames

29 New Orleans, Lower 9 th Ward

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31 Katrina, 8/29/2005

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

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

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44 Katrina Refugees

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51 Oil dispersal agents = water and bottom pollutants.

52 BP’s Deepwater Horizon Spill 5/26/10

53 Mississippi River headwaters, St. Paul, MN

54 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!

55 Mississippi “Delta” and terrace

56 MS River Delta, Cotton country

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58 Anatomy of an alluvial river valley

59 MS River delta, a physiographic feature NOLA

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

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

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64 ORCS Lock

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