SF Preparing To Spend $587 Million On Seawall Surrounding The Entire Airport

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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.

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/10/sfo-plans-to-surround-airport-with-10-mile-wall-to-protect-against-rising-bay-waters/

[FirstLight]

1. hmmm... in the mud?

Then I sure hope the engineers think about earthquakes and liquefaction...

It's amazing how just a "little" climate change can effect so much... *eyeroll*
Keep building those seawalls, but don't block the way of the thousands of gallons of oil coming into the Bay

[hunter]

2. The Dam across the Golden Gate is going to be a hell of a thing...

...but it won't save Google-Apple-Facebook because most people will be communicating with one another in person, or by writing letters on paper to send by mail or messenger.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Every city on a coast should have already started to do this.

Adapting is necessary and costly but we have no choice. We waited too long due to greedy businessmen and politicians. Future generations will suffer.