Rising Seas Are Flooding Virginia’s Naval Base, and There’s No Plan to Fix It

Rising Seas Are Flooding Virginia’s Naval Base, and There’s No Plan to Fix It

Posted by on Oct 25, 2017 @ 3:44 pm in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: October 25, 2017

The one-story brick firehouse at Naval Station Norfolk sits pinched between a tidal inlet and Willoughby Bay. The station houses the first responders to any emergency at the neighboring airfield. Yet when a big storm hits or the tides surge, the land surrounding it floods. Even on a sunny day this spring, with the tide out, the field beside the firehouse was filled with...

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