Pumps are an integral part of plans to help save South Florida from flooding. Thanks to climate change, stormwater systems here and around the world are coming under growing strain. In some cases, they’re starting to fail.
Inside one of the biggest stormwater pump factories in Florida, 90 workers are busy molding metal: cutting, shaping, welding, painting, and assembling it into the massive machines responsible for keeping South Florida’s streets dry.
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A large, slow-moving Category 4 storm like Hurricane Ian would push a catastrophic surge across much of coastal Miami-Dade many times worse and extending much farther inland than Irma did in 2017.