Posted on Jul 23, 2022
Thousands of people could live at the flood-prone Navy Yard. Will they be safe?
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An updated master plan released late last month for the former military site offers developers a range of tools to beat back flood risk — from digging a canal to elevating buildings.
“In a place like Philadelphia … we are subject to different kinds of flood risk,” said Franco Montalto, a professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University. “So what do we do? Do we retreat from these flood-prone [areas]? Or do we try to retrofit and redesign these flood-prone areas?”
“In a place like Philadelphia … we are subject to different kinds of flood risk,” said Franco Montalto, a professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University. “So what do we do? Do we retreat from these flood-prone [areas]? Or do we try to retrofit and redesign these flood-prone areas?”
Thousands of people could live at the flood-prone Navy Yard. Will they be safe?
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..."Some residents there have called for people living in flood-prone homes to have the option to relocate to city-owned higher ground within the neighborhood. In this “land swap” proposal, residents have outlined similar flood mitigation strategies to those used in the latest Navy Yard plan, said Drexel’s Montalto, who has helped develop the idea.
“It’s just the identical approach,” he said. “It’s just that here [in the Navy Yard plan], it’s being proposed for mostly high-income newcomers.”...
..."Some residents there have called for people living in flood-prone homes to have the option to relocate to city-owned higher ground within the neighborhood. In this “land swap” proposal, residents have outlined similar flood mitigation strategies to those used in the latest Navy Yard plan, said Drexel’s Montalto, who has helped develop the idea.
“It’s just the identical approach,” he said. “It’s just that here [in the Navy Yard plan], it’s being proposed for mostly high-income newcomers.”...
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