Comments on: Rise in sea levels forces drastic changes on Florida http://browardnetonline.com/2009/12/rise-in-sea-levels-forces-drastic-changes-on-florida/ Local Broward News Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: BrowardNETOnline http://browardnetonline.com/2009/12/rise-in-sea-levels-forces-drastic-changes-on-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 BrowardNETOnline Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:44:57 +0000 http://browardnetonline.com/?p=5520#comment-1672 I believe that because Florida is built atop limestone and coral, that levees wouldn't work. Not sure on the exact specifics right now, but I've heard that before. We have canals and inlets (inlets are dug out to allow passage through the channels, and that sand is then placed on the beach). But if you go back in time to the early 1900s, South Florida used to have water moving across the entire area like a sheet, some spots six inches, others deeper marshland areas. We currently have salt water creeping into our water table, and our top layer of the water table of fresh water has been drained. We have to rely on piping and digging canals. I believe that because Florida is built atop limestone and coral, that levees wouldn’t work. Not sure on the exact specifics right now, but I’ve heard that before. We have canals and inlets (inlets are dug out to allow passage through the channels, and that sand is then placed on the beach). But if you go back in time to the early 1900s, South Florida used to have water moving across the entire area like a sheet, some spots six inches, others deeper marshland areas. We currently have salt water creeping into our water table, and our top layer of the water table of fresh water has been drained. We have to rely on piping and digging canals.

]]> By: Editilla~New Orleans Ladder http://browardnetonline.com/2009/12/rise-in-sea-levels-forces-drastic-changes-on-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-1542 Editilla~New Orleans Ladder Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:05:01 +0000 http://browardnetonline.com/?p=5520#comment-1542 Hi Y'all, this is such a good article. Florida's place at the literal beachhead in the climate battle, as has been the past decade of incredible heavy weather, might be severely underestimated nationally, but not in New Orleans. We know what you are talking about. Y'all may find it interesting and I hope helpful to see the new National Levee Map, developed by Levees.org in New Orleans. Just go to that site and search Levee Map. While they focus mainly on New Orleans Levee Failures of 8/29/05, it is hard to get past the fact that this is a National Infrastructure Priority as over half of the Nation lives in counties with levees. We as a nation may as well get with it and figure out the Best way to do this, starting with Florida, and Louisiana. Levees are not the end-all, but they are a Management Tool, a Piece of a System. Thank you, we hung a link to you on our blog Monday. Hi Y’all,
this is such a good article. Florida’s place at the literal beachhead in the climate battle, as has been the past decade of incredible heavy weather, might be severely underestimated nationally, but not in New Orleans. We know what you are talking about.

Y’all may find it interesting and I hope helpful to see the new National Levee Map, developed by Levees.org in New Orleans. Just go to that site and search Levee Map. While they focus mainly on New Orleans Levee Failures of 8/29/05, it is hard to get past the fact that this is a National Infrastructure Priority as over half of the Nation lives in counties with levees. We as a nation may as well get with it and figure out the Best way to do this, starting with Florida, and Louisiana. Levees are not the end-all, but they are a Management Tool, a Piece of a System.

Thank you, we hung a link to you on our blog Monday.

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