Coastal Flooding
Coastal Flooding happens when sea water rises above the normally dry or low-lying land. "The nature of the flooding could be in three different forms. One would be water coming up over the beach and flooding into whatever buildings lie mauka of the beach. It could be the water table that lies underground beneath us in the coastal plain actually rising and making temporary wetlands on the ground surface, or it could be salt water coming up through the storm drains onto our streets," -Chip fletcher, Dean of the School Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology at University of Mānoa. |