Port of Olympia Partners with City of Olympia and LOTT Clean Water Alliance on Sea Level Rise

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Submitted by Port of Olympia

The Port of Olympia recognizes that the impacts from climate change our community is vulnerable to are serious and takes seriously the potential impacts sea level rise may have on the Olympia downtown area and Port of Olympia owned properties.

The Port hopes to partner with the City of Olympia and LOTT Clean Water Alliance in developing a Sea Level Response Plan that will provide actionable steps the organizations can take to build resilience to the impacts we anticipate experiencing. Strategies will aim to balance risks and uncertainty, as well as private and public costs.

The Plan will identify needs for protecting downtown and develop a response that can be implemented incrementally and modified as new information emerges. The Port and LOTT plan to invest $75,000 to the effort. The City of Olympia will invest $100,000.

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