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Broward commission votes to ride the climate-change tide

 

Over the objections of some residents and builders, commissioners voted Tuesday to begin planning for climate change’s effects on Broward and its low-lying areas.

By Brittany Wallman

Sun Sentinel

By 2060, residents of the posh Las Olas Boulevard community in Fort Lauderdale could find seawater lapping at their doors. Parts of Hollywood, Hallandale Beach and Dania Beach also could be wading in water at high tide, county officials warn.

Agreeing that Broward County is at risk of flooding, sewer failure and contamination of drinking water because of climate change and an accompanying rise in sea level, county commissioners moved Tuesday in a new direction — with climate-change planning.

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