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Last Chance for Cat Island?

Monday, October 27, 2014 7:38

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With all of the noise surrounding compensation payments made (or not) to people and businesses hurt by the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster, one mostly overlooked casualty of that massive oil spill has been the thin, fragile line of barrier islands that form(ed) the Gulf’s first line of defense against hurricanes, and provide vital habitat for birds and other wildlife. These islands were in trouble before the spill, threatened by rising sea level. But the spill killed vegetation that helped anchor the sand in place, accelerating erosion.

Particularly hard-hit are the small islands in Cat Bay, part of the larger Barataria Bay on the west side of the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana. Satellite imagery shows how fast this has happened:

Cat Island in 2006. Vibrant vegetation covers both parts of the island.

Cat Island in 2010, during the height of the BP oil spill. Absorbent booms surround the island in an effort to hold back the oil. A few small slicks (dark streaks) are apparent, possibly oil from the spill.

Cat Island in 2012. The once-thriving vegetation appears mostly dead, and the island has shrunk significantly in just two years.

Can Cat Island, and the other important Gulf Coast barrier islands, be saved from this precipitous decline? Enter the US Army Corps of Engineers. They will attempt to rebuild the island by depositing sediment dredged from the channel of the Mississippi River. The Corps has a very uneven record where barrier islands are concerned, and the industrial Mississippi River sediments are likely to contain a variety of contaminants — a problem that has dogged other restoration projects in the region — but this may be the last chance for Cat Island.

Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2014/10/last-chance-for-cat-island.html

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