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To: combjelly who wrote (19281)5/24/2017 7:24:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 356222
 
managed retreat, Delta style

Isle de Jean Charles, a stitch of land on the tattered southern fringe of Louisiana, is thin and getting thinner. Battered by storms and sea-level rise, and deprived of revitalizing sediment from the Mississippi River, its surface area has shrunk by ninety-eight per cent since 1955, and its remaining three hundred and twenty acres can flood in little more than a stiff breeze. Most island residents are members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, and early last year, thanks to a forty-eight-million-dollar federal resettlement grant, they began the process of relocating their community to the nearby city of Houma.

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To: combjelly who wrote (19281)5/24/2017 8:04:34 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 356222
 
This is not a subject I know anything about which is the reason I asked. Your explanation seems totally reasonable to me. NOLA is sunk no matter what unless someone decides to invest a ton of money into it it what I hear from you.

It will be a tragic loss. But it already is in many other ways.


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