As Waters Rise, a Community Must Decide: Do We Stay or Go?

Faced with more frequent flooding and worse to come, the Philadelphia community of Eastwick is grappling with difficult questions about its future: Will levees and flood walls protect them, or should residents abandon their homes and move to higher ground?

 By Jon Hurdle • September 28, 2023 

"Across the United States, low-lying communities face similar hydrological challenges: how to protect people and property from rising seas and increased inland flooding. Many of these places are low-income communities of color. But low-lying Eastwick, with a majority Black population and a history of pollution, has long-standing socioeconomic challenges that make adaptation especially urgent and difficult."

Full article:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/chronic-flooding-eastwick-philadelphia?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

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