Miami Beach to begin new $100 million flood prevention project in face of sea level rise
With Miami Beach set to break ground this year on the most ambitious piece yet of its aggressive anti-flooding project, some homeowners worry that raising streets to keep them dry will cause flooding on their properties.
The city will embark on a $100 million project to raise roads, install pumps and water mains and redo sewer connections during the next two years across a swath of single-family homes in the La Gorce and Lakeview neighborhoods of Mid-Beach. A sizable chunk of a citywide effort estimated to cost $400 to $500 million, the work is meant to keep streets dry in the face of sea level rise.
Along the way, engineers will have to figure out how to smoothly join private property to the public right-of-way, which will be an average of two feet higher than it is now. In some cases, private property that drains excess water into the street will no longer do so, creating a conundrum that public works officials believe could be solved with a new form of public-private partnership.
It will be a long and ongoing conversation between taxpayers and City Hall.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article129284119.html
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Is there a thread in the MJ forum about flooding or sea-level rise affecting JAX? Thanks.
Quote from: Pastor Eric Wester on January 30, 2017, 07:41:19 PM
Is there a thread in the MJ forum about flooding or sea-level rise affecting JAX? Thanks.
I remember someone posting a map of Duval County that showed which areas of town would be flooded if the sea level rose various amounts, but I can't seem to find it.