A Defense Department-funded “resiliency review” finds Parris Island facing growing threats from climate change
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. — — Rising seas are encroaching on one of America's, where thousands of recruits are molded into Marines each year amid the salt marshes of South Carolina's Lowcountry region.
Maj. Marc Blair, Parris Island’s environmental director, describes this strategy as “the art of the small,” a phrase he attributes to the base’s commanding general, Brig. Gen. Julie Nethercot. In practice, it means such things as raising a culvert that needs to be repaired anyway, limiting development in low-lying areas and adding floodproofing measures to firing range upgrades.
Salt marsh makes up more than half of the base’s 8,000 acres , and the depot's highest point, by the fire station, is just 13 feet above sea level. It is linked to the mainland by a single road that’s already susceptible to flooding. But day-to-day disruptions are growing, from nuisance flooding on roads to rising temperatures and higher humidity that when combined, limit the human body's ability to cool down with sweat.
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