Mississippi Delta

Drowning alluvial bird-foot delta losing a football field of land every 100 minutes

Mississippi River Delta & Plaquemines Balize

29.1500°N, 89.2500°W

ELEV: 1m (3 ft)

NAD83 / WGS84 (EPSG:4326)

Illustrative terrain study for Mississippi River Delta & Plaquemines Balize — Illustrative landscape study · not to scale

DERIVED SPATIAL STORY

The clash between navigation engineering (channel levees starving wetlands of sediment) and rapid subsidence/sea-level rise has converted thousands of square miles of solid land into open marine water.

3DEP RELIEF

16m

Peak: 8 ft · Base: -45 ft

IMPERVIOUS GROWTH

+-18.4%

Surface: 2.1% Paved

NIGHT RADIANCE

12.8 nW/cm²

Bortle Class 4 / 9

PAD-US OVERLAP

62.8%

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Delta National Wildlife Refuge) / State of Louisiana