Living on Thick Water: Understanding Subsidence in Greater New Orleans

New Orleans is located on ground that, at best, has been described as thick water. Over the last 100 years, we have depended on a “pump and pipe” approach to flooding that happens frequently in our region.  We now know that this approach deprives our soils of much needed hydration, which then leads to subsidence. New approaches to urban water management like green infrastructure and active groundwater management provide a path forward from our subsiding past.

Join the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the City of New Orleans during this free public lecture for an overview of subsidence and groundwater management from two of the foremost experts in this area - Roelof Stuurman of Deltares, an Amsterdam-based groundwater and hydrogeology expert, and Mead Allison of The Water Institute of the Gulf, a river, deltaic and coastal sedimentary process expert.