{"id":5552,"date":"2011-09-03T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2011-08-30T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:46:03","slug":"instant-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/instant-island\/","title":{"rendered":"instant island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5554\" title=\"a-new-island-2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/a-new-island-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[As this summer&#8217;s flooding swept massive sediment loads down the Mississippi, it also sent much greater volumes than usual pouring through the Corps&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/restoring-the-land-making-machine\/\">diversion projects<\/a>. \u00a0In the case of the West Bay Sediment Diversion (pictured in our previous post), the Times-Picayune notes, that volume carried enough sediment to construct an instant island:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In a demonstration of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nola.com\/tag\/mississippi-river\/index.html\">Mississippi River\u2019s<\/a> formidable\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nola.com\/tag\/coastal-restoration\/index.html\">land-building power<\/a>, a new, 5-acre island has sprouted up near the river\u2019s mouth, where this year\u2019s record Mississippi River floodwaters poured through the West Bay freshwater diversion&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The island is made up of coarse-grained sand. Its westernmost tip already has a mix of greenery that is at least a foot tall. At the eastern side, sprouting plants are interspersed with half-inch shallow ponds filled with algae. Volunteers planted three cypress tree seedlings on the island Wednesday&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kemp said that part of the island was used as a rookery earlier this year by a number of bird species. On Wednesday, a variety of rails, terns and gulls were on the shoreline, along with egrets and great blue herons.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/environment\/index.ssf\/2011\/08\/miss_flooding_gives_birth_to_t.html\">full article<\/a> at the Times-Picayune.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[As this summer&#8217;s flooding swept massive sediment loads down the Mississippi, it also sent much greater volumes than usual pouring through the Corps&#8217; diversion projects. \u00a0In the case of the West Bay Sediment Diversion (pictured in our previous post), the Times-Picayune notes, that volume carried enough sediment to construct an instant island: &#8220;In a demonstration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods","tag-land-making-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}