Posted on 10/13/2019 6:57:03 PM PDT by Libloather
Concerned that rising waves will flood runways and buildings in the coming years, officials at San Francisco International Airport are moving ahead with a $587 million plan to build a major new sea wall around the entire airport.
The plan, the latest example of the growing cost of climate change in California, involves driving steel pilings - sheets with interlocking edges - into the mud and also constructing concrete walls in some places around all of the airport’s 10-mile perimeter.
“This is something we’ve been looking at for many years,” said Doug Yakel, a spokesman for the airport. “What’s changed is the level of protection that is needed.”
The airport, built in 1927 in a cow pasture at the edge of San Francisco Bay, serves 55 million passengers a year, making it the nation’s seventh busiest. But its runways sit only about 10 feet above sea level.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Sum Ting Wong, call your office.
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Build that wall!
Well that’ll work out to fleece the taxpayers and make some of the “right people” very rich, and at the same time make a bunch of liberals feel good about themselves.
Gee...I wonder who will win the bid on that?
Average middle America Americans will need to fight the theft of national capital just to preserve the corrupt leftist strongholds they call big cities. They need to redistribute urban America into smaller less populous, less vulnerable locations.
Notice that there’s no concern over the Delta smelt. No environmental impact studies, citizen input, using renewable and green building materials etc.
Needles and poop, illegals and degenerates. That doesn’t bother them. But they HAVE to build a fence to keep the unicorns out...
From a comment on the article -
“Instead of sea rise, Paul Rogers and Mecury News should reference an earlier article of theirs, the one that notes land subsidence at airports for San Francisco and Oakland.
The article states 7 feet of loss due to subsidence. The number dwarfs sea rise at 8 inches by a factor of 10.
See: Ideas showcased to prevent SF Bay flooding from global warming
at https://www.mercurynews.com...
That 2009 article states:
“According to a study last year by the U.S. Geological Survey, based on current warming trends, it will rise 16 more inches by 2050, and as much as 55 inches by 2100, as ice caps around the world continue to melt.”
This 2019 article states:
“According to tide gauges, San Francisco Bay has risen 8 inches since 1900. Scientists project it will rise another 1 foot by 2050 and another 3 feet or more by 2100. Heavy winter storms, especially during high tides, already cause flooding in some parts of the Bay Area. Waves have over-topped the berms and existing sea walls on occasion at SFO, causing minor flooding issues.”
If we wait enough decades, the predictions will get the rise down to nothing.
Meanwhile, the popular narrative has been used to justify massive borrowing for a public facility. When the city fails, maybe they can get the U.S. Government to bail them out.“
Just set up a homeless campground around the airport. Pretty soon the piles of garbage will accumulate. The spray shotcrete over the garbage piles and you’ve got a flood wall.
Waste of money as the runway is 10 feet above sea level and no risk of flooding.
These environmentalists really are genius. You know this project will be way over budget, ending up costing over a billion dollars. It won’t need to work, or be built well, because it’s not really needed. Profit margins will be huge. They get the money, the politicians get to pose in front of it and wring their hands over the crises, trying to look like they care and are doing something.
Walls are EVIL... just ask SANFRAN Nan...
Wonder how much stock her and hers have in the local construction company who is the ONLY company in the world able to meet bid standards for this particular job.
Let them get started, then hook onto it and surround the city with it keeping them and all their CRAP in.
Total waste of money. As AOC says, ban jet airplanes.
And SF Earthquake II happens and the airport’s destroyed by liquefaction of the reclaimed land that used to be a cow pasture. But the seawall will remain as a lasting memorial of all those who died at SFO.
Multiply the predicted cost by 10.
I thought the green new deal would eliminate airplanes, so there’s no need for airports.
It would seem to me that if their numbers are what they claim for sea-level rise, the airport will no longer be usable by 2050. They need to move the airport inland....maybe forty miles, to higher elevation. This should be top priority of the local government.
Same thing for JFK Airport, and Miami’s Airport.
ROTFLOL!
they don’t seem to be too concerned about hundreds of millions of dollars of beach-front real-estate in Malibu ... i guess the sea is going to rise just around SFO ...
..as they have for 90 years.
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