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Impacts of Mississippi River Flood of 2011 - Coggle Diagram
Impacts of Mississippi River Flood of 2011
Economic
flooding caused $2.1 billion worth of damage
1.3 million acres of agricultural land were affected.
All the flood preventions were damaged
$60 million was spent trying to fight the flood.
Hundred of homes in three Memphis-area trailer parks were inundated when two tributaries overtopped their banks.
Piers and boathouses were damaged affecting boating and fishing
The flood affected the estuarine system and the Oyster industry in Mississippi Sound, Lake Borgne, and Breton Sound, La. Economic losses to the oyster industry in Mississippi alone in 2011 were approximately $60 million.
Environmental
Pollution
In the great flood of 2011, towards the Gulf of Mexico, water flowed on along with an amalgam of fertilizer, oil, pestides, trash, and farm runoff.
"Flood water picks up numerous contaminants from roads, fans, factories, and storage building, including sewage and chemicals." - Tennessee Department of Health.
With water comes the mosquitoes
Dead Zone
The overflow of pultants in the Gulf of Mexo would create a larger than normal, "dead zone". This is a where, off the Texas-Lousianna coast, fish and marine creatures would die since there wasn't enough oxygen.
The greater the rain, the greater the dead zone.
Social
21,000 homes and businesses were affected along with 43,000 people.
Officialss ordered mandatory evacuations for hundred of resident in the Atchafalaya Vasin after the Morganzza floodway was opened
Poor cell phone reception in some remote areas
shortage of phones and radios.