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Sheboygan is getting ready for extra flooding and erosion

Sheboygan is getting ready for extra flooding and erosion

SHEBOYGAN – Sheboygan has spent tens of millions of {dollars} to forestall a catastrophe as devastating because the flood of 1998.

However with Lake Michigan water ranges anticipated to rise and proceed to bear excessive fluctuations, the Metropolis of Sheboygan and a regional analysis group are getting ready further planning and tasks to handle a future with extra flooding and erosion. These mixed efforts embrace conducting a two-year mission to evaluate flood catastrophe preparation in addition to spending tens of millions extra on a shoreline restoration mission. 

Getting ready for flood disasters

Lake Michigan’s common water ranges rose 6 ft between January 2013 and November 2019, and almost 2 ft between January and July 2019, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service.

The lake reached a report excessive ranges in 2020 earlier than falling about 3 ft during the last two years, in keeping with knowledge from the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers. 

Water ranges are anticipated to proceed fluctuating, reaching larger highs in addition to decrease lows sooner or later as a result of Lake Michigan and the local weather have grow to be extra unstable, mentioned Jackson Parr, College of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute employees member.

High Lake Michigan levels has eroded the area near North Point along Broughton Drive, Monday, May 18, 2020, in Sheboygan, Wis.

By way of the Wisconsin Sea Grant, Parr is working with employees on the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Fee and Wisconsin Emergency Administration to look at flood preparedness of 9 northeastern Wisconsin cities on Lake Michigan’s shore, together with Sheboygan.  

The mission will include three elements: an unbiased flood vulnerability evaluation, an extreme-event simulation and a resiliency scorecard.  

The vulnerability evaluation will pinpoint areas in Sheboygan which are most vulnerable to flooding.

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