Anthony J. Duplechin Due to heavy pumping of certain aquifers within the Capital area, saltwater from the south has moved across the Baton Rouge Fault into some of the fresh water aquifers in East Baton Rouge Parish. The Capital Area Groundwater Conservation District is empowered to take all necessary steps…
Dale J. Nyman P.G. The “2,800-foot” sand is the deepest of the ten depth-named aquifers underlying East Baton Rouge Parish. The aquifer was traced to its recharge area in northernmost Wilkinson County, Mississippi and the wells monitoring water levels were identified (Nyman, 2009). Because the “2,800-foot” sand is the deepest,…
Michael Tritico, RESTORE, P.O. Box 233, Longville, LA 70652 michaeltritico@yahoo.com , Paul Ringo, Sabine Riverkeeper, 2090 Mouth of the Creek Road, Merryville, LA 70653 paul.ringo0815@gmail.com Safe drinking water for humans must be acknowledged as the highest, best use of any of Louisiana source of fresh water. A Policy of…
Pierre Sargent, U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Baton Rouge Office, Suite 120, 3535 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA, 70816: psargent@usgs.gov, Robert B. Fendick, U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, Baton Rouge Office, Suite 120, 3535 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70816:…
Paul V. Heinrich Louisiana Geological Survey, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Within Assumption and Ascension parishes, Louisiana, the Late Holocene Pierre Part Distributary System exhibits anomalous anastomosing distributaries that originate from a formally active area of crevassing along Bayou Lafourche. These distributaries converge downstream back into a…
Joseph E. Berlin, AECOM, 7389 Florida Blvd Suite 300, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Joseph.Berlin@aecom.com Most large reservoirs in the U.S. are multi-purpose reservoirs, which may be used for providing water supply, flood risk management, hydropower, recreation, and maintenance of minimum river flows downstream for environmental protection. The storage capacity of…
Douglas Carlson Louisiana Geological Survey, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803-001 Abstract The rate of relative sea-level-rise (RSLR) rise has been measured for approximately 200 years for ports mainly in the north Atlantic and for nearly 100 years for ports in Gulf of Mexico coast. The acceleration of RSLR…
Sanjeev Joshi, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803: sjoshi2@tigers.lsu.edu; Y. Jun Xu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803: yjxu@lsu.edu Deltaic development in the mouths of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers (MAR) has been found to be strongly affected by river floods. Although several studies have investigated long-term total…
Alexander Breaux Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University; Alexander S. Kolker Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University; Katherine Telfeyan Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University; Jihyuk Kim Department of Marine Sciences, University of North…
Jun Xu School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA yjxu@lsu.edu Abstract Many urban lakes are faced with the twin problems of siltation and nutrient enrichment from the runoff of the watersheds. The accumulation of soil and organic particles can exacerbate internal release of nutrients, leading…