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It seems that the most vulnerable state to coastal flooding is Florida by far. But Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey are also particularly vulnerable and actually the entire American coastline is at some degree of risk, according to Rising Sea Levels a Growing Risk to Coastal U.S., Study Says | NYTimes. Here in Florida
roughly half of the nation’s at-risk population [is] living near the coast on the porous, low-lying limestone shelf that constitutes much of that state....If the pace of the rise accelerates as much as expected, researchers found, coastal flooding at levels that were once exceedingly rare could become an every-few-years occurrence by the middle of this century.
So therefore it is no surprise that in low-lying areas the Florida building code has seen a wide-ranging revision as of March 15th, according to South Florida bracing for strict new coastal flood construction rules | Miami Herald.
This will apply in most coastal zones along South Florida, with a corresponding increase in the cost of construction. The stricter rules apply to new construction as well as extensive renovations that comprise more than 50 percent of a structure’s value.
Home construction in those “Coastal A Zones,’’ as the new high-hazard areas would be known, would also be affected, though to a lesser extent than commercial buildings. Home builders would have to sink pilings into the ground to support the structure and swimming pools, and the first habitable floor of new homes in those low-lying areas would have to be elevated a foot or more higher than current rules require. Foundations and ground-floor walls would also have to be designed for resistance to “hydrodynamic forces’’ — the pressure generated by wave action and rising waters due to storm surge, building officials say.
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