Amid repeated storms and sea level rise, new research shines light on another flood risk that has remained hidden for years: groundwater rise.
, the water is projected to move back in to essentially every wetland area that has been filled.
Regulators at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board have been following all this research with great interest and are already diving into the updated maps, said Assistant Executive Officer Lisa Horowitz McCann. The board recently16 bayfront landfills to account for groundwater rise in their long-term flood protection plans, and caseworkers are now going through hundreds of cases to figure out which sites need further action.
A lot more work also needs to be done to understand what the actual damage will look like for gas lines, septic systems, foundations and other buried infrastructure, said Patrick Barnard, whose research team at the U.S. Geological Survey has done“We need to start merging this information with the engineering world,” he said.
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