Impacts www.tcpalm.com Climate change, sea level rise prep could cost SFWMD $1 billion South Florida Water Management District board discusses projects needed to address climate change and sea level rise.
Politics Aging flood-control systems can’t protect South Florida from sea-level rise Our main protection from sea-level rise is a flood-control system built 70 years ago. The system will need expensive upgrades. But Congress has yet to provide the money for a much-needed study — which it authorized in 2016 — of how to do that.