Three of them are Compromise, Dock Street and Main Street, which is paved with brick and slopes uphill. A similar project to create a wet well linked to the storm sewers on the Dock Street side is somewhere on the horizon. “Unfortunately, the Dock Street side is going to continue to flood until we do the same concept of the wet well,” Grieco said. At the Naval Academy, the need to rebuild a sea wall near the sailing center led to a greater awareness of rising sea levels. “The existing wall height along the Farragut sea wall section is approximately 5.4 feet.

Source: Washington Post February 18, 2019 00:26 UTC