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Near Coasts, Rising Seas Could Also Push Up Long-Buried Toxic Contamination
By Laura Klivans
February 8, 2021
Marquita Price grew up spending lots of time at her grandmother’s one-story lavender house in Deep East Oakland. It’s a place she’s always considered home, and where her grandmother still lives. So Price, an urban planner, was upset to learn about a lesser-known aspect of climate change fueled by sea level rise: it could cause the groundwater beneath this formerly-industrial community to rise, and wreak slow-motion havoc in the process.
“How is that going to affect my family?” Price thought. “And my community and the assets that we worked so hard to hold?”
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Marquita Price outside her grandmother s house in East Oakland. She worries that contaminated rising groundwater threatens the health of her family and their assets. Laura Klivans/KQED
Marquita Price grew up spending lots of time at her grandmother s one-story lavender house in Deep East Oakland. It s a place she s always considered home, and where her grandmother still lives. So Price, an urban planner, was upset to learn about a lesser-known aspect of climate change fueled by sea level rise: it could cause the groundwater beneath this formerly-industrial community to rise, and wreak slow-motion havoc in the process.