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ACTIVITY: Subsidence/Erosion:
What Can We Do?

As you’ve learned, subsidence and erosion are serious problems in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. It is taking concerted effort on the part of a number of governmental agencies and citizens groups to combat these forces. Complete the following problem/solution outlines on these issues. The first one has been started for you!

PROBLEM:

What: Land subsidence

Why: levees, compaction of sediments, extraction
of groundwater and minerals, urbanization,
wetland drainage and development

Attempted Solutions

Results

1

Add 'fill' to landscape

temporary; fill washes away easily

2

cut 'crevasses' in levee

sediment accumulates; builds land

3

plant vegetation

holds sediment in place

4

keep more 'green space'

allows water to infiltrate ground

5

End result?

During winter months, much of the heron's diet comes from small land mammal like mice and voles.
  1. Introduction
  2. Essential Questions
  3. Global Climate Change
  4. Are Sea Levels Rising?
  5. Subsidence and Erosion in the Basin
  6. Activity: Thinking at Right Angles
  7. Activity: Linking Lake Factors
  8. Hurricanes
  9. Activity: Subsidence and Erosion
  10. Activity: C-Mail
  11. Activity: The Pontchartrain Picayune
  12. Activity: Multimedia Presentation
  13. Activity: Help! I'm Up to my Hips in Water!