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Planning
During the week of Sept. 26, the NH Coastal Adaptation Workgroup held its yearly NH Climate Summit. This event took place both virtually and in-person and featured presentations by regional planner Autumn Scott and principal regional planner Kyle Pimental.
Autumn presented on SRPC's Building Resilience by Building Equity in Dover project, which sought to engage the City’s historically underserved communities (HUCs) in climate change conversations as they are often disproportionately vulnerable to its impacts. Such impacts were identified as sea level rise, coastal flooding, freshwater availability, and urban heat island effects. This project created an important framework that can and should be replicated in all other planning projects and will allow the City of Dover to integrate the network built into other city process and planning efforts.
Kyle presented on SRPC's Durham Groundwater Rise Vulnerability and Planning Study, which allowed SRPC and partners the ability to map and model assets that
may be impacted by future groundwater rise. Assets that were assessed in this study
included roads, septic systems, wells, municipal critical facilities, water and sewer pipes,
and stormwater infrastructure. The project resulted in a series of maps showing current depth to groundwater, modeled groundwater rise under a variety of future sea level rise scenarios, areas in Town that will be most susceptible to future groundwater rise, and all of the assets that may be impacted by future groundwater rise.
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