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Consultants present City of Stuart vulnerability assessment; warn grants and deadlines are imminent
Summary
City staff and consultants presented a state-funded coastal vulnerability assessment and adaptation plan that maps sea-level and compound-flood risk, identifies at-risk critical assets and neighborhoods, and urges applying quickly for state resiliency grants with a 50% match requirement.
City of Stuart officials on July 14 heard a technical vulnerability assessment and adaptation plan describing projected sea-level rise, high-tide and storm-surge scenarios and which public assets and neighborhoods are most exposed.
The assessment, prepared under a Florida Department of Environmental Protection planning grant, maps exposure for 2040 and 2070 scenarios and pairs those flood predictions with the city’s critical-asset inventory, consultants said. “This is going to speak to a lot of that and, hopefully, answer a lot of the questions about maybe which drainage projects, which neighborhoods might be most affected by storms and storm events and, and flooding,” staff member Ben Hogarth said at the start of the presentation.
Why it matters: the study is a grant requirement and is intended to support applications for state resiliency funds. Consultants told the commission the state has allocated a large pool of resilience funding that cities should pursue quickly and warned the application period opens in the coming…
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