San Francisco is launching a year-long study to protect the city from rising sea levels.
"When we're being told that there's a potential for the sea to rise and then rise up to seven feet in a relatively short period of time, we're talking about years and decades for that to occur, we need to start working now with our infrastructure," said Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesman for the San Francisco Fire Department.
Baxter says this is the exact reason why they built a floating fire station along the Embarcadero earlier this year. "Which is basically a barge that has a fire station built on it that's stabilized by pillars. It has the ability to rise and lower with the flow of the tide and if we had sea rise, we'd be able to see that rise with the sea as well," he said.
In the meantime, the city will be holding a series of neighborhood meetings this fall along the city's eastern flank to get more community feedback on ideas in the works, like raising the shoreline along roadways such as the Embarcadero or other, more extreme strategies like relocating or adapting buildings.
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