THE RISING TIDEWATER
BY BRETT ANDERSON / PHOTOGRAPHY BYÂ SAHAR COSTON-HARDY
Disparate but urgent efforts to address sea-level rise in the Virginia Tidewater, one of the country?s most important strategic centers, are striving to keep up with visible realities.
FROM THE DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.
The first question that sprang to Ann C. Phillips?s mind soon after she moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in 2006 was, ?Why, when it rains, does the whole place submerge"?
She wasn?t referring only to dramatic weather events, although Phillips, a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, landed in Norfolk during a bumper crop of those: Norfolk saw more major coastal storms and hurricanes in the 2000s than in the four previous decades combined, according to the city government. Harder to fathom were the floods caused by light rains and ?blue sky floods? triggered by lunar tides. Tidal flooding affects low-lying areas of Norfolk nine times per year on average.
These more regular floods were unlike anything Phillips experienced growing up in Annapolis, Maryland. They?re an alarmingly routine part of life in Norfolk and the surrounding Hampton Roads area of Virginia, and dangerous, too, even if they?re not the stuff of Weather Channel viewer bonanzas.
?If you have a doctor?s appointment,? Phillips said, ?you can?t get down the street. That?s a problem.?
It?s one of many problems, big and small, that floods cause around Hampton Roads, the name of a channel linking three rivers with t...
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