“Every sandy barrier island, every low-lying coast, from Miami to Mumbai, will become inundated and difficult to maintain functional infrastructure. You can put valves in sewers and put in sea walls but the problem is the water will keep coming up through the limestone. You’re not going to stop this.” Harold Wanless
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Some 72 units in a central Florida condominium complex were deemed unsafe after a building inspection found the walkways leading to the condos were at risk of collapsing, officials said.
An engineering firm found some of the walkways at Images Condominiums in Kissimmee were “in danger of collapse,” Osceola County spokesperson Chris Brumbaugh told the Orlando Sentinel.
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The finding came a week after the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed killed 18 while the number of people still unaccounted for stands at 145.
Residents at the condominium complex near Orlando were advised to enter the buildings at their own risk, the newspaper reported.
Property records showed the complex was built in 1990.
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The newspaper reported that the engineering report was conducted on behalf of the condominiums’ management company.
Brumbaugh said the condo association and management company are responsible for repairing the structural issues found by the inspection.
The county is offering residents assistance with temporary housing, Brumbaugh said.
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…….. Zhong-Ren Peng, professor and director of the University of Florida’s International Center for Adaptation Planning and Design said: …“But older buildings are still at risk and in any case the new building codes may need to be re-examined because they don’t address the issue of sea-level rise” .
“I think, at the very least, all new development should be required to come up with a study on the sea-level rise impact before building is done.”
The challenge for Miami, however, will continue to escalate.
The region abuts seas that are about 8in higher than they were a century ago and this pace will quicken – with another 17in of sea level expected by 2040.
Depending on the melting of the vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, south Florida could be assailed by a foot of extra sea level a decade in the second half of this century, according to Harold Wanless, a geographer at the University of Miami.
“It’s going to be an enormous to impossible job everywhere to deal with that,” Wanless said. “The sea level rise is accelerating and will do so more dramatically than most people anticipate.
“Every sandy barrier island, every low-lying coast, from Miami to Mumbai, will become inundated and difficult to maintain functional infrastructure. You can put valves in sewers and put in sea walls but the problem is the water will keep coming up through the limestone. You’re not going to stop this.”
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