EVSC 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biscayne Bay, Karst, Swim Bladder
18 Feb 2016
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Salt water encroachment was moving up the canals and getting (cid:1) into the wells poisoning agricultural areas (cause kindey problems) Karst topography once salt gets into it, there"s no way to get it out again. Salinity gates one way flapper valves so that during the rainy season and freshwater in the canals increases, it can flow out to the bay, but when it lowers, salt water can"t come back in. Eastern protective levee system 1955 (protect miami from flooding) (cid:1) (cid:1) Everglades agricultural area (eaa) levees 1965. 1950s initial development along two areas eaa south of. 1970s expanded in these areas mainly with the invention of the air conditioning system: eaa has drastically expanded. 1990s greatly expanded in these areas ridge and eaa. Chesapeake bay is able to tolerate much largest temperature ranges (eurithermal), but tropical places have very narrow temperature tolerance (sterothermal: set of cooling canals (6. 5 miles long and 1 mile across) (cid:1)
