NO wasn't built below sea level

[jtexas]

Just thought I'd share an interesting tidbit.<br /><br />On NPR this morning...NO was at or near sea level when built...it's been sinking at about two feet per hundred years, while sea level has risen eight inches or so.<br /><br />it sinks because of compaction of the ground it sits on. Before the levees the river deposited sediment there keeping the ground at or near sea level.

 

[brother chris]

Re: NO wasn't built below sea level

interesting stuff, because that is not what the media is telling us. <br />I have always heard that it WAS built below sea level. <br />So, I wonder what all the water that flooded NO will do to the ground now. Will NO sink at a faster rate now?

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: NO wasn't built below sea level

Good question bc, all that water is a huge amount of weight.