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In Hampton, a race to insulate vulnerable neighborhoods against sea-level rise

  • Molly Rains

Millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements are helping one particularly hard-hit Hampton neighborhood cope with the effects of climate change. In the lead-up to the project’s completion, Gentian Road resident Tom Bassett saw bacteria-contaminated floodwater fill his yard, lap against his home, and pool in the street dozens of times each year during particularly high […]

Virginia

Hampton leaders cool to limited Army Corps flood solutions

  • Jim Morrison

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers draft feasibility study proposing scaled-down protection without structural elements like floodwalls for vulnerable portions of Hampton and Poquoson got a frosty reception from  Hampton’s city manager during a recent presentation to City Council. The $4.2 billion Coastal Storm Risk Management plan, now open to public comment, calls for elevating […]