Has anyone ever seen an analysis of how rising sea levels would pollute the oceans?

[Silent3]

I tried to google this subject, but couldn't find any good matches. I kept finding instead how carbon pollution is causing the sea levels to rise, as we already know.

What I'm wondering about is how much garbage and toxic chemicals, which are on land right now in coastal areas, that the ocean waters would pick up. Think of all of the oil refineries, chemical plants, nuclear reactors, land fills, buildings full of plastics and other garbage near the shore, all being flooded, and all of that crap mixing into the ocean waters. And all of this happening (by definition) on the coastlines, where most macroscopic marine life lives.

If the rise is slow enough (even the recent story about the Thwaites glacier makes around five years the potential start of a major sea-level rises that would still take decades to play out -- it's not a threat of sudden overnight flooding), perhaps we'd move some of the pollutants out of the way as the water moves in.

But my guess is we'd still talking about a major water pollution event to compound the misery caused by the flooding itself.

Has anyone heard more about this subject to go beyond my mere speculation?

[Scrivener7]

1. Oh, jeez. I never even thought of that, but of course it would happen.

[bahboo]

2. think of all the oil refineries in low lying areas like Louisiana....

and that's just the start. It would be catastrophic...

[Metaphorical]

3. A good case study is to look at New Orleans after Katrina

Certain neighborhoods had become so toxic that even after the waters receded, many areas were condemned as unliveable. Fifteen years later, the Army Corps of Engineers is still trying to remediate these areas.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Nuclear power plants like Fukushima, nuclear disaster.