Olympia’s New Sea Level Rise Report

floodThe City now gets an annual report on sea level rise planning from Public Works staff. The new report, which was presented to Council a few weeks ago, is much, much soberer than previous versions. Research over the last couple of years has led staff to significantly increase their estimates of how much more tide we need to think about coping with, and about how soon we might have to deal with it. As always, we have no solution to the question of how to keep an earthquake from breaching our defenses during a high tide event, or to the question of how long this process might last and how much more water the city might face over the next century or two…

The 2016 report is available here.