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Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy
Compensate the landowners and don’t bother dewatering. Adaptation kinda means going where livelihoods aren’t at risk if it’s avoidable.
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I’d enjoy it as a lake personally. However, its literally some of Canada’s best farmland. The property values to compensate would be huge and the production value would be lost from the country’s economy. I really don’t know enough to make a judgment on what’s best. I’d just consider updating and maintaining updating the infrastructure properly before writing the whole place off just yet. Otherwise, you’ll also have to throw away the city of Richmond with the Vancouver airport once the sea levels rise another foot or two.
B.C. has been warned for years of potential for key Sumas dike to fail
“In fact, a consultant's report found that most of the sample of dikes surveyed in the Lower Mainland were vulnerable to failure.”