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North America
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Atlantic/Gulf Coastal Plain
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Andrew 8/24/92
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Chesapeake Bay
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Annapolis, MD
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Barrier Island formation
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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse moved in 1999
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Corolla, NC, north of Duck
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Florida’s Crystal Coast, between Pensacola and Panama City
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Grayton Beach, NW FL
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VA Beach, VA
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Carolina Bay, SE NC
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Padre Island, TX
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1900 Galveston, TX Hurricane
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Venice, Italy’s Lido
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Holland, Netherlands at the Zuider Zee
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London, England on the Thames
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New Orleans, Lower 9 th Ward
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Katrina, 8/29/2005
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New Orleans 8/27/05 New Orleans 8/30/05
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Industrial Canal Breach Tulane Ave., 9/11/05
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Katrina Refugees
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Oil dispersal agents = water and bottom pollutants.
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BP’s Deepwater Horizon Spill 5/26/10
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Mississippi River headwaters, St. Paul, MN
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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!
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Mississippi “Delta” and terrace
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MS River Delta, Cotton country
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Anatomy of an alluvial river valley
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MS River delta, a physiographic feature NOLA
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US Army Corps of Engineers’ levees were built over the “slave levees”
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The Old River Control Structure, north of Baton Rouge The ORCS routes water down the Atchafalaya River in high water.
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ORCS Lock
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