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Left Holding the Sand Bag In the event of projected flooding sandbags area unit obtainable at the Benicia Corporation Yard 2400 East ordinal Street and therefore the East E Street car parking zone (across the road from the Benicia Yacht Club). Some help is also obtainable however residents ought to bring shovels and attempt to fill and cargo the baggage themselves. Flooding in cities in and around metropolis Bay isn't simply mere speculation. it's happened repeatedly|over and over} within the past and it'll happen once more and again if ocean levels still rise or a "perfect" storm joins with traditional high tides. it is easy to visualize why. a remarkable result happens once you consider predictions of the primary areas round the bay that may flood if the ocean rises. What you discover area unit those area unitas most at risk of flooding are the various locations wherever the bay was originally crammed to make housing and business developments. These low-lying areas-Redwood Shores, Alameda, Vallejo, Alviso and lots of others-were bay bottom and tidelands simply a couple of decades agone. currently there's housing and therefore the flood danger is clear. And thousands of recent homes area unit projected for a dozen or a lot of major developments being planned for added tidelands and alternative low-lying locations round the bay. [3] "At least twelve major developments with as several as fifty six,000 new homes area unit planned at the sting of the Bay over successive five to twenty years...many area unit in low-lying area unitas consultants say are probably liable to flooding related to long-run water level rise. Some cities and counties have ways to take care of that downside, others don't." [4] But what's totally different these days is that several of those new developments are designed as community associations and far of the


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