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re: Louisiana Coastal Erosion.

Posted on 5/30/14 at 8:10 am to
Posted by swampdawg
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 5/30/14 at 8:10 am to
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Basically what happens is they create fresh water intrusions carrying a lot of nutrients from fertilizer run off. The nutrient rich fresh water causes marsh grasses to have shorter roots and weakens there protection from storm surge. Then you also have salt water intruding with fresh that kills fresh water plants and essentially having the same effect. There really seems to be no correct way to fix it right now.


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