Plan to relocate residential homes and tribal facilities away from current and future hazards. As sea level continues to rise, homes on the peninsula will be increasingly at risk for flooding during extreme tides and storm events. Eventually (within the next decades for some properties) many areas on the peninsula will be subject to regular flooding. Relocation can be challenging from both an outreach and educational perspective and from a planning and engineering perspective. Planning now for relocation (i.e., managed retreat) can help ensure that the transition to higher elevation land has adequate funding, maintains community connections, and is as least disruptive as possible. Also, thinking holistically about the structure and layout of the future infrastructure and community can help ensure the resilience of those facilities to future climate related shocks and stressors.
Tribe: Shoalwater Bay Tribe
View Source Document: Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe Climate Resilience Plan
Year: 2021
Topic:
Infrastructure
(view all topics in the plan)
Region: Northwest
