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10,000 Years Ago
Literally, no salt water in sight
LAST ICE AGE
Cameron was more than 100 miles inland from the coast
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Southwest Louisiana SHOWING BOTH SOLID LAND AND
MARSH
Southwest Louisiana SHOWING BOTH SOLID LAND AND
MARSH
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Southwest Louisiana SHOWING
SOLID LAND ONLY
Southwest Louisiana SHOWING
SOLID LAND ONLY
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Cameron Creole Watershed
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Watershed is lower than the lake
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WATER EVAPORATES Leaving salt behind
With no adequate freshwater source
(or too much flooding)
marsh becomes saltier and weak
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Intermediate/Brackish Marsh Desirable for the
fish, shrimp and crabs we have today
TOO SALTY
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General Gulf of Mexico Salinity 33 ppt
(parts per thousand)
North Calcasieu Lake
Readings as high as
29.0 ppt
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CYPRESS TREES
2 ppt
BRACKISH MARSH 8 ppt
SALTWATER MARSH 40 ppt
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CYPRESS TREES
2 ppt
BRACKISH MARSH 8 ppt
SALTWATER MARSH 40 ppt
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1874 80’ wide 5’ deep
Ship Channel first created in 1874
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1903 200’ wide 13’ deep
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Until 1910 Calcasieu Lake
was fresh enough to be used for rice irrigation
1903 200’ wide 13’ deep
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1941 250’ wide 30’ deep
Ship Channel completed from the Gulf to Lake Charles
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Levee first proposed
Geographer warned of area becoming future Lake Pontchartrain
Salt water control structure on the Calcasieu River 2 miles north of Lake Charles
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1968 400’ wide 40’ deep
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Levee first proposed
Construction of Levee begins
Construction of Weirs begins Resource Management Plan adopted Advisory Committee created
Weirs completed controlled operation begins
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By following the MANAGEMENT PLAN the marsh started to come back :
±82 acres GAINED per year through 2004
2005-2010 MANAGEMENT PLAN
was not followed ±362 acres LOST per year
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Peconi
Mangrove
Grand
Lambert No-Name
12
PPT
5
PPT
13 monitoring stations 6 of them “live”
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ADJUSTABLE CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
Peconi & Lambert
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ADJUSTABLE CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
Peconi & Lambert
GATE GATE GATE GATE
GATE GATE GATE GATE
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ADJUSTABLE CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
Peconi & Lambert
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ADJUSTABLE CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
Peconi & Lambert
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ADJUSTABLE CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
Peconi & Lambert
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No-Name and Mangrove are FIXED CREST Weirs
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FIXED CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
No-Name & Mangrove
FIXED-CREST SILL
GATE GATE GATE GATE
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FIXED CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
No-Name & Mangrove
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FIXED CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
No-Name
CREST ELEVATION LOW AT NO-NAME
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FIXED CREST WEIR STRUCTURES
Mangrove
CREST ELEVATION HIGH AT MANGROVE
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BOAT BAY at Grand Bayou
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