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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Idea To Mitigate Rising Seas In Miami Beach: Lift The Entire City
One way Miami Beach might prepare for the threat of rising sea levels is to elevate the whole city.
The only tried and true solution to combating rising sea levels is to raise with it, says Eric Carpenter, public works director for the City of Miami Beach.
As the city celebrates its centennial, the top-level engineer and Miami Beach resident spoke with WLRN about how sea-level rise will affect the citys next 100 years.
Miami Beach has started installing pumps to keep water off the streets. The plan is to have 75 to 80 pumps in place by 2020. The city is also in the process of elevating some of its lowest roads and sidewalks by 1.5 to two feet.
But Carpenter says thats just the start. Theres a very real possibility the entire citys infrastructure -- roads, buildings, parks -- will need to be elevated an extra two, three or even four feet over the next 100 years.
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An Idea To Mitigate Rising Seas In Miami Beach: Lift The Entire City (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Mar 2015
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While a destructive fire was not unusual for the time, instead of rebuilding the city as it was before, the response of the city leaders was to make two strategic decisions: first, that all new buildings must be of stone or brick, as insurance against a similar disaster in the future; and second to regrade the streets one to two stories higher than the original street grade. Pioneer Square had originally been built mostly on filled-in tidelands and, as a consequence, it often flooded.
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