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A screen shot shows the Little River, which forks off the Miami River west of Hialeah and winds across Miami to Biscayne Bay.
As rising seas continue their inland march, neighborhoods up and down the Little River could be among the hardest hit in South Florida.
Chronic flooding has already led insurers to write-off some properties as repetitive losses. Low-lying septic systems regularly flood, pushing bacteria levels in the river to hover around 40% year-round. And the South Florida Water Management District, which operates massive pumps to keep water out, has found pumps would be overwhelmed possibly as soon as this decade.