Subsidence between houston and galveston, texas, due to the extraction of oil caused part of the coast to be submerged by seawater from san jacinto bay.
The greater Houston area, possibly more than any other metropolitan area in the United States, has been adversely affected by land subsidence (Coplin and Galloway, 1999). Extensive subsidence caused mainly by ground-water extraction has increased the frequency of flooding, caused extensive damage to industrial and transportation infrastructure, motivated major investments in levees, reservoirs, and surface-water distribution facilities, and caused substantial loss of wetland habitat in and around Galveston Bay. Subsidence ultimately limited local ground-water development and drove expensive efforts to store and convey surface water to supplant ground-water pumpage.
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