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Old 12-21-2019 | 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Holland has damned much of the lowlands from flooding from the north sea for centuries (millenia?). Maybe that would work in FL?
I just recently read about this. Holland has a geological ground structure that keeps the water out, as long as the "walls" (dikes) are high enough. S Florida's ground is porous (limestone?), so putting up dikes won't help, as the sea level will rise from below. The first big problem is the rising sea levels getting in to the ground water aquifers, which S FL uses for it's drinking water, and then into a number of sites with buried toxic waste, which will start to mix with the groundwater and rising sea water.
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