The City of Chelsea is a coastal community that is facing an increased risk of flooding as climate change contributes to increased storm severity, sea level rise, and extreme heat events. The goal of this project was to provide flood adaptation strategy recommendations and relative cost estimates for public facilities critical to the City of Chelsea. We evaluated five public facilities within the City to determine their structural and geographical characteristics that cause them to be at risk from coastal flood events, and their sensitivity to flooding. Our team evaluated the probability of flooding for the critical facilities and compiled a set of adaptation strategies and supplemental materials with the support of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant College Program.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Vega, Andres
• Turchiarelli, Tyler Jacob
• Sesma, Maitane
• Heaney, Fiona Helen

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Security
• Environment
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101515-172600

Mot-clé

• Climate change mitigation
• Climatic changes--Risk management

Advisor

• Mathisen, Paul P.
• Tuler, Seth

Year

• 2015

Center

• Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant College Program

Date created

• 2015-10-15

Emplacement

• Chelsea

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright