Though the researchers found that areas upriver from the city were generally losing less ground, one community, Norco, was losing an inch-and-a-half per year around industrial sites, including a refinery.
The researchers said that groundwater withdrawal was among the top reasons that parts of the region are sinking so rapidly.
Of course, distinguished scientists like Obonzo the Kenyan and Algore would say that the land isn’t sinking, the ice caps are melting and causing the oceans to rise.
No, no, no it has to be Bushs fault or Climate Change or something else scary. It can't be a simple scientific reasonable explanation. Has Bill Nye (smartest climatologist on the planet) weighed in on this yet?
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NO obviously needs to build a bullet train.
Swamps and land below sea level were never meant to build cities on.
Everyone overlooks the obvious. Too many overweight people in NOLA.
Maybe Gaia is just flushing the town...
Why would there be a diminishing supply of ground water there....they are surrounded by water...the Mississippi river flows right by and the Gulf of Mexico is right on their doorstep.....MUCHO water.
I think all deltas subside over time. The increasing weight of the sediments causes compaction and eventual sinking.
“New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don’t wanna swim.”
Why would there be a diminishing supply of ground water there....they are surrounded by water...the Mississippi river flows right by and the Gulf of Mexico is right on their doorstep.....MUCHO water.
It’s not the city or groundwater themselves causing New Orleans to sink. It’s all of the man-made flood controls and levees. Before all of those were built, every time the river would flood these areas, sediment would be deposited and the ground would not sink.
But with all these flood controls, the river just shoots the sediment out into the gulf without leaving it to rebuild the delta. The Mississippi delta should really begin basically at Baton Rouge. In the past the Mississippi flowed over this entire area building the land in southern Louisiana. It should really be allowed to flow and flood the Atchafalaya today, but the US army corps of engineers won’t allow it.
“Parts of New Orleans Are Sinking Fast, Study Finds”
Heh. So’s the rest of the country.
“Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren’t smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city five feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can’t swim is a genius.”
And the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming crowd, aka the Warmist Alarmists, will blame this on a sea level rise, not on land subsidence. You just watch.
It’s the weight of all the houses, cars and stuff. At least it won’t tip over, like an island can.
Women, minorities hardest hit