Hazard: Flooding - Coastal
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Identify locations where hard armoring makes sense. Key types of hard armoring include reinforced rock walls, riprap, and other shoreline...
Implement and monitor the success of the hard shoreline protection features.
Create redevelopment restrictions, incentives for retreat, and building code changes with enhanced enforcement to move infrastructure from vulnerable locations.
Determine if it is best to relocate, raise, seal or abandon any infrastructure that will sustain damage by inundation.
While the location where the wastewater treatment plant is located is not likely to be subject to flooding until near...
Evaluate and relocate other vulnerable aspects of the wastewater treatment system such as lift pump stations vulnerable to sea level...
Identify locations where pumps would be viable. Note that pumping would address limitations of tide gates over the long term.
Elevate and seal utilities.
Retrofit existing infrastructure to deal with sea level rise (elevate buildings, etc.).
Downtown Port Townsend will need a new underground water removal system, but in the long term may have to add...
Create a sea level risk district for inclusion in Comprehensive Plan and promulgate new codes and code changes associated with...
Incorporate climate change and coastal hazard considerations into building codes by increasing freeboard requirements to two feet (three feet for...
