Report: Rising sea levels will affect Bayside neighborhoods
A Bayside Adapts report says the Portland neighborhood between Back Cove and Forest, Cumberland and Washington avenues could experience a sea-level increase of two feet to six feet by 2100.
The Forecaster reported that sea level increases could also affect the harbor side of the peninsula along Commercial Street.
“As we are considering buildings and infrastructure, we should not be considering them for 2017 or 2018, but for the impacts of rising sea levels in 2050 and 2100,” Councilor Spencer Thibodeau said. The report says that more information is needed on the status of drainage systems.
Bayside Adapts recommended the city commit to manage sea level increases of 1.5 feet by 2050 and 3.8 feet by 2100 and prepare to manage sea level increases of 3.4 feet by 2050 and 8.8 feet by 2100, the Forecaster reported.
City Manager Jon Jennings has committed to revising the city’s zoning codes, which Thibodeau said is a chance for the city to regulate development in the face of rising sea levels, the newspaper reported.
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