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Game of Floods - Town Beach
Part 1: Read Your Assigned Role
Select your assigned role from the list below. Click the link to read the background information. Write out answers to the discussion questions, and submit them to your teacher.
Town Beach Part 2
Part 2: Potential Flood Threats & Flood Adaptation Strategies
Assignment: Read the potential flood threats and flood adaptation strategies for the Town Beach below. Discuss the pros and cons of each flood adaptation strategy within your group. Make sure to consider cost. In your notebook, rank the Flood Adaptation options from the chart below in order from best to worst, and provide a rationale. Submit your rankings and rationale to your teacher.
The town beach is a popular summer destination that brings a lot of people to downtown Resilience. Several private homes and a restaurant are located directly on the beach. The beach has already been shrinking, and beachfront properties are threatened by storms and high tides.
Threat 1: Damage to waterfront properties
Scientists predict that the sea level in Long Island Sound will rise between 1.5 and 3.5 feet in the next 50 years. Storms are also likely to be more frequent and more intense. As the beach shrinks, the homes and businesses on the waterfront become more vulnerable to storms.
Threat 2: The Shrinking Beach
The beach protects properties farther inland by dissipating wave energy during storms. It also is economically valuable to the town because it attracts visitors.
Beach nourishment in progress.. Adding sand does not solve the underlying cause of the beach erosion, so beach nourishment typically has to be repeated every few years.
Beach erosion due to Hurricane Matthew
Once you have submitted your rankings and rationale to your
teacher, you are ready to join the Town Council!
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