Posted on December 12, 2008 by quintascott
In the Spring of 2008 it rained and rained just as Midwest farmers had fertilized their fields with nitrogen-based fertilizers. The rain washed the fertilizers into streams that flow to the Mississippi, which carried them to the Gulf of Mexico.
When the nitrate-laden freshwater from the Mississippi, lighter than the Gulf’s saltwater, reaches the Gulf, it [...]
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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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