PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 30, 2023
Bug Light to Willard Beach’s endpoint at Fisherman’s Point is our hurricane alley. Repeatedly, this is where our climate change-induced extreme weather damage hits. With rapid sea-level rise, South Portlanders should rethink elaborate waterfront plans. First, let’s end the push for 180-foot housing towers on a 30-acre brownfield property, which will, regardless of sea wall “improvements,” be regularly, in the coming decades, flooded, eroded and storm-damaged. The cost of sea-level rise and extreme weather protection for existing homes, low-lying tank farms, sewage treatment, stormwater drains, buried gas lines and water mains will be overwhelming. ~ Linden Thigpen, South Portland