Although breaking open levees south of New Orleans is being discussed as a way to replenish the state’s eroding marshes, LSU coastal scientists say the river no longer carries enough sediment to help the marshes—especially with rising sea levels due to global warming. The result is that the state is set to lose an area of coastline equal to the size of Connecticut by 2100. The paper by Michael Blum, a former LSU geologist now working for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. in Houston, and LSU geology professor Harry Roberts, was published today in Nature Geoscience magazine. Read the Times-Picayune story on the report here.
LSU scientists says breaking levees won’t help
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