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Good News! Sections of New Orleans' flood walls sinking at rate of nearly 2 inches a year
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:12 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:12 am
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i'm sure Gov. Landry and LaToya will fix this immediately.
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CBS Evening News
Some sections of New Orleans' flood walls sinking at rate of nearly 2 inches per year, study finds
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June 27, 2025 / 9:29 PM EDT / CBS News
New Orleans — As the Atlantic hurricane season has gotten underway, a new study published Friday by researchers at Tulane University reveals hotspots in New Orleans' concrete flood walls which had been strengthened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The study found that the city's concrete flood walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, reducing capacity to block storm surges in some neighborhoods.
"There is certainly a potential in the future, if these rates continue, to degrade our level of protection of the flood protection system," Tulane professor Mead Allison, a co-author on the study, told CBS News.
i'm sure Gov. Landry and LaToya will fix this immediately.
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:14 am to geauxtigers87
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The study found that the city's concrete flood walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:14 am to geauxtigers87
Pretty sure that's a CoE issue.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:15 am to geauxtigers87
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sea levels are rising
Prove it
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:16 am to geauxtigers87
I'm not sure what someone's reasonable expectations for flooding should be when you build a city below sea level.
Water and gravity have a thing for each other.
Water and gravity have a thing for each other.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:17 am to geauxtigers87
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flood walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising
What does this even mean?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:18 am to LazloHollyfeld
its almost like they built it on swamp land or something
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:21 am to LazloHollyfeld
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What does this even mean?
We are CBS so we have to talk about the climate crisis that is an imminent to all of us. However, we can't show any real data so we have to lump it into a fear mongering article. (Editor to writer prior to publication)
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:21 am to geauxtigers87
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hotspots i
so like 3 places it's sinking
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:22 am to LazloHollyfeld
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flood walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising
it's stated in a way to make it sound very bad. However, with zero sea level rise it's really not as bad.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:22 am to geauxtigers87
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i'm sure Gov. Landry and LaToya will fix this immediately.
Neither of them were in charge for this.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:32 am to geauxtigers87
NO is built in a swamp bowl, in subtropical climate, between a river and a large body of water. Half the city is below sea level. How much do you think government can do?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:38 am to geauxtigers87
I guess the garbage and land fill they used for support is not lasting...
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:38 am to White Bear
We leveed off the river. All the sediments are settling off of the continental shelf. Of course we're sinking.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:40 am to White Bear
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2 inches is huge.
That's not what she said.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:43 am to geauxtigers87
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walls sinking at rate of nearly 2 inches a year
When did this start?
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walls are sinking faster than sea levels are rising
So, what is the rate of sea level rise? (ETA: removed my estimation)
That would seem sort of noticeable to everyone
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 11:35 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:55 am to White Bear
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2 inches is huge.
You’re damn right it is.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:58 am to Swagga
It does call out this may be natural settling in the sections most recently completed in the last couple years as opposed to widespread
Posted on 6/30/25 at 10:00 am to geauxtigers87
"They bummed those levees" ---- 9th ward Residents
It was actually barges hitting each other onthe Industrial Canal during Katrina
It was actually barges hitting each other onthe Industrial Canal during Katrina
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