#levees — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #levees, aggregated by home.social.
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Climatic And Anthropogenic Controls On Late Holocene Sediment Transport To The Gulf Of Mexico By The Mississippi River
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105401 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #hydrography #humanimpacts #human #settlement #anthropogenic #levees #engineering #spatialanalysis #spatialtemporal #erosion #weathering #Mississippi #River #Sediment #Provenance #Zircon #grainsize #alluvial #alluvium #hydrogeomorphology #headwater #coast #coastal #delta #geology #Holocene #geochemistry #Sr #Nd #isotope #Strontium #Neodymium #detrital #climate #GulfofMexico -
"The fragility of aging #WaterInfrastructure is evident in many communities. The American Society of Civil Engineers' U.S. Infrastructure Report Card in 2021 gave U.S. municipal #water systems overall a grade of C-minus.
Flood protection infrastructure earned even lower grades: U.S. #levees and #dams both received D grades.
The challenges:
1: Many stakeholders; who decides?
2: Past decisions affect future choices
3: Who pays?"https://phys.org/news/2024-04-south-aging-infrastructure-pounded-climate.html