Contributing to the precarious geological situation in New Orleans is the fact that while sea level is rising,the surface of the land is sinking due to sediment compaction (wetlands drainage lowering water tables in sediment aquifers)and sediment starvation (flood control structures disallowing floodplain sediment deposition).
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