Posted on November 17, 2009 by quintascott
In January as we were all talking about the inauguration of a new president and his stimulus program, I wrote several times about infrastructure as stimulus. I included this graphic that comes from the Comprehensive Recommendations Supporting the Use of the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy to Sustain Coastal Louisiana, published in August 2007. The writers’ strategy [...]
Filed under: Fine Art Photography, Flood Of 1993, Flood of 2008, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, Infrastructure, Levees, Louisiana Coast, Mississippi River, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Tagged: Elevated Houses, Floating Houses, Mississippi River, Photography | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 2, 2009 by quintascott
The Flood of 2008 breached several agricultural levees along the Upper Mississippi in Henderson, Hancock, and Adams Counties in Illinois.
The farmers who till the 4-mile-wide floodplain here were wiped out for the summer. The village of Meyer, right on the Mississippi, saw its population reduced from 40 people to 10. The flood caused $80 million [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2009 by quintascott
Four million ducks fly over the Confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and the Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers a few miles downstream.
There are plenty of geese in Illinois this fall and winter, but the geese will make do with a golf course. Ducks need wetlands and Illinois wetlands were short on [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by quintascott
During the Fall of 2006 it was apparent at Dulac, Lower Dulac, and on Bayou du Large that the activities the marshes generate–the shrimping, the crabbing, the fishing, and the new fishing camps raised on stilts–disguised the disaster than had happened the year before and the disaster happening underfoot. The land is sinking at the [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2008 by quintascott
There were several floods along the Mississippi and the Louisiana coast during the Summer of 2008.
First, the Flood of 2008 along the Upper Mississippi destroyed many levees that collapsed in 1993, and many that didn’t. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers described the flood as shorted in duration as the 1993 flood, which soaked the Upper [...]
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