Knock-On Flood Threat Gets 4-Inch Reality Check – KneeDeep Times
For years, sea level rise planning in the Bay Area has carried a dark asterisk: Protect your own city with caution, or your seawalls and levees might contribute to flooding your neighbors.
Fears of cross-bay flooding — or inadvertently foisting extra water onto parts of the San Francisco bayshore by defending other areas of shoreline from rising seas with flood walls — have taken on a life of their own in public discourse from San Rafael to the South Bay. But the magnitude of these redirected ef...