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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 collecti...

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...

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 Chesap...

The meeting. Good morning, today is wednesday july 15, 2015. This is a regular meeting of building inspection commission. I like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. President mccarthy, here. Vice president mar, here. Commissioner lee, here. Commissioner mccray, present. Commissioner melgar here. Commissioner walker, here. Commissioner clinch, here. We have a quorum and the next item is president announcement welcome everybody to the july 15 big meeting. Where have some announcements. I want to thank director hewy for taking step too...

Wednesday july 15, 2015. This is a regular meeting of aidatement appeals board. I would like to remind everyone to turn off electroning devices. The first item is roll call. Resident nel gar, here. Vice [inaudible] commissioner mar, here. Commissioner lee, here. Commissioner mu cray, present. Commissioner walker here. The next item is the oath. All parties giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand. Is there a translator . Yes there is. Do you swear the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge . Thank you. You may be seated. Next item is ite...