[CPEO-MEF] CLIMATE: "Storms would submerge Norfolk Naval Station"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Study: Storms would submerge Norfolk Naval Station

By Dianna Cahn
Virginian-Pilot
November 2, 2013

Norfolk Naval Station's vital infrastructure wouldn't survive the kind of powerful storms and widescale flooding that rising seawaters are expected to bring by the second half of the century. And those conditions would likely get even worse in the following decades.

That's the conclusion of a three-year case study of the naval base, conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers, which analyzed computer storm models based on varying degrees of sea level rise.

It was one of four government-funded studies conducted nationwide to assess the impact of sea levels rising as much as 6 feet over the next 85 years.

"Military bases... are designed to be able to withstand hurricanes and flooding and that type of thing - to some extent," said Kelly Burks-Copes, a Corps of Engineers research ecologist who led the study of the base. She spoke during an interview this week after presenting the findings at a conference at Old Dominion University.

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For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2013/11/study-storms-would-submerge-norfolk-naval-station

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Lenny Siegel
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