Near Coasts, Rising Seas Could Also Push Up Long-Buried Toxic Contamination By Laura Klivans February 8, 2021 Marquita Price grew up spending lots of time at her grandmother’s one-story lavender house in Deep East Oakland. It’s a place she’s always considered home, and where her grandmother still lives. So Price, an urban planner, was upset to learn about a lesser-known aspect of climate change fueled by sea level rise: it could cause the groundwater beneath this formerly-industrial community to rise, and wreak slow-motion havoc in the process. “How is that going to affect my family?” Price thought. “And my community and the assets that we worked so hard to hold?”