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Aware of the risk. We are studying and adapting to these risks to identify, prioritize, and develop Effective Solutions to future vulnerabilities. Thankthank you very much. Thank you, admiral. Members of the committee. Congressman thank you for what you do. Distinguished colleagues on the panel and in the audience thank you. I speak today for the over 200,000 members of the Chesapeake Bay foundation, board, staff. Chesapeake bay is Getting Better but it is still a system dangerously out of balance. I use the word system because science has taught us to realize that the chesapeake is a collection of all the rivers and streams which feed into it. Of course the main stem. Fortunately theyre is a plan in place to restore the chesapeake and all the rivers and streams. It is called the chesapeake clean water blueprint or ....
The wake of Tropical Storm isabel. In 2003 isabel caused widespread flooding and equipment damage throughout the yard. The total cost of that for repair was 120 million. Weve taken several measures to ensure a similar event will not have the same detrimental impact. Weve raised the ground floor elevations of new construction. For example, wesley brownfieldhouse was built above the flood level and acts as a flood wall. We reelected the chiller plant and moved the hvac equipment to rooftops where feasible. We have raised electrical outlet on ground floors and installed check valves on ubd ground tunnels and storm lines. Where suitable weve identified opportunities for quote wet, flood proofing unquote where we designated billings and fields that will be allowed to flood once in a 100 years. They can handle flooding with minimal damage and using costs to keep them dry would not be C ....
Chesapeake Bay Foundation has Environmental Education centers on smith island and tangier island. Inhabited islands in the mid bay. Residents of smith and tangier are losing their homes. They are losing their island. Day after day, week after week, losing their home. On a property in the chesapeake Bay Foundation, in just the last 25 years we have lost an entire pine forest, several dozen acres, several hundred trees to sea level, bay level rise. Ive submitted my testimony, but let me just summarize briefly. The impacts of Climate Change are multiple, but let me tell you about three for Chesapeake Bay. Warmer waters have a decreased capacity to hold dissolved oxygen exacerbating the bays dead zone. Tem ....
We will get reaction from former and speak with Peter Kornbluh coauthor of, back channel to cuba the Hidden History of negotiations between washington and havana. Then swedish prosecutors have dropped part of their Sexual Assault inquiry against wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but the most serious part of the investigation remains in place. Though he has never been formally charged. Now britain has announced plans to challenge ecuadors decision to provide him asylum in its london embassy. The statute of limitation has run out. It is regrettable it is come this far and raise questions about how the prosecution is dealt with the case. Amy we will look at how u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning could face ....
We will get reaction from former and speak with Peter Kornbluh coauthor of, back channel to cuba the Hidden History of negotiations between washington and havana. Then swedish prosecutors have dropped part of their Sexual Assault inquiry against wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but the most serious part of the investigation remains in place. Though he has never been formally charged. Now britain has announced plans to challenge ecuadors decision to provide him asylum in its london embassy. The statute of limitation has run out. It is regrettable it is come this far and raise questions about how the prosecution is dealt with the case. Amy we will look at how u. S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning could face ....