See a map of Bay Area hazardous sites at risk from rising seas
More than 900 hazardous sites — power plants, sewage treatment plants, refineries, cleanup areas and other facilities — across California could be inundated with ocean water and groundwater by the end of the century, according to climate scientists at UCLA and UC Berkeley. … [UCLA’s Lara] Cushing and UC Berkeley’s Rachel Morello-Frosch, both environmental health scientists, last year launched an interactive tool, Toxic Tides, mapping California’s hazardous sites that could be inundated by sea level rise. … The researchers also used federal groundwater data to examine how rising ocean water would drive freshwater up from the ground.
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