The disappearing island:
Snake Island has shrunk 71 percent
SUN PHOTO BY BOB MUDGE
This graphic, presented to the board of the West Coast Inland Navigation District Friday, shows the shrinkage of Snake Island from 1977 to 2012, when it was only 29 percent as large as it was 35 years earlier. The white lines indicate how large the island was in different years. The white line on the far left indicates how large the island was in 1977.
Snake Island, at the intersection of the Venice Inlet and the Intracoastal Waterway, is a victim of its location.
The Island is only 29 percent of the size it was in 1977. Created when the Intracoastal Waterway was cut through Rattlesnake Island in the early 1960s, the island has shrunk due to erosion caused by both waterways, according to Mohamed Dabees.
