Caroline Chappell Jen Yabut
Resist Retreat
CHESAPEAKE BAY ATLAS
Manokin River Watershed
Resisting Water
"you realize that little blue and white thing is everything that means anything to you... all of history and music and poetry and art and war and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it is on that little spot out there that you can cover with your thumb..."
- Russel Schweikart
"When you live and work on an island, you play these little chess games with Nature continuously"
- Tom Horton
Tylerton
Smith Island Historic + Predicted Erosion
Smith Island Historic + Predicted Erosion
Every year the U.S. Army Corps of Marines dredge 4.5 million cubic yards of sediment from the bay
Possible Contaminants
Dredged Soil Composition - Lead - Cadmium - Mercury - Copper - Chromium - Zinc - Arsenic - Nickel - Magnesium
Clay
Silt
Sand
Gravel
Dredging Operations Timeline + Emissions
Dredge Operation
Placement of Sediment
History of Managed Retreats
$14.5 Million
Retreats
Grundy, VA
Levisa Fork River
$96 Million
$36.3 Million 1977
$3.2 Million
Minnewaukan, ND
Devils Lake
$26 Million
Million
Cost Comparisons
Engineering vs Relocation Case Study:Soldiers Grove
Upstream Dam Proposal: $55 Million Levee System: $3.5 Million
Value of structures protected: $18 Million
Cost of Relocation: $6.5 Million
Buildings Relocated:24 Homes,36 Structures 2 Municipalities,
Differences in Cost Compensation
Leavenworth $15,000 per person
Valmeyer: $80,000 per person
North Bonneville: $ 2 million per person
Isle de Jean Charles,LA Mississippi Delta
Newtok,AK
Ninglick River
Cycles of the Watermen
Promoting Unity
Job Opportunities
Ecological Restoration
Reunite with whole community who Moved Away
Isle De Jean Case Study
98 % of Land Lost on Isle
Number of Houses Decreased From 63 to 25
All Homes Elevated 3 feet Above the 500-year floodplain Relocated 40 Miles North to Rural Schriever
2002
Hurricane Isidore
$1.28 Billion in Damages
Hurricane Lili
$860 Million in Damages
1830 Indian Removal Act
Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe Relocates to Isle De Jean Charles 1953 Island Road Constructed
1830s
Island Road Elevated 2002 Talks of Resettlement 2001 US Army Corps of Engineers Realigned the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Levee
