UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain co-authored new research indicating we may see a megaflood similar to the one that turned streets into rivers in Sacramento in 1862.
In the Bay Area, preparations are already underway.
"We’re looking at building setback levees, at building what we call flood walls or berms that are set back and give the creeks more area where it would be allowed to flood," Rechelle Blank with the Santa Clara Valley Water District said. Other solutions include elevating houses, directing flood water into parks and restoring wetlands at the edge of the Bay to cope with sea level rise. But solutions take time.
When asked what would happen if a megaflood hit the Bay Area in the next year, San Francisco Estuary Institute Executive Director Warner Chabot said,"I think the scientific term would be we'd be in very deep doo-doo." "We're not fully prepared for a megaflood event," he continued."We would see enormous damage done to our airports, our freeways, our water treatment plants. Underserved communities would suffer severe flooding. We'd have a major infrastructure catastrophe."
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