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County vulnerability assessment maps flood risk to coastal dune lakes; staff highlight living-shoreline options
Summary
Taylor Engineering presented Walton County's vulnerability assessment, showing mapped flood exposures for dune-lake focus areas under sea-level rise and storm scenarios and identifying resilience actions such as native vegetation, living shorelines and monitoring triggers.
Walton County—s coastal vulnerability assessment shows rising exposure of county assets -- including coastal dune lakes and adjacent infrastructure -- under sea-level-rise and storm scenarios, Taylor Engineering told the Coastal Dune Lakes Advisory Board.
Duncan Greer, coastal waterfront engineer with Taylor Engineering, summarized the study approach: catalog county assets, set critical-elevation thresholds for those assets, overlay a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM), then model…
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