As flooding becomes more common in some New Jersey coastal towns, flood gauges are getting reset so that more of them work together. Cook alum Joe Martucci reports that the gauges in Ship Bottom, Tuckerton, Absecon, South Dennis, Avalon and Stone Harbor are now calibrated with those in AC and Sandy Hook. Not only does it provide more widely consistent reports, but it also is forward looking:
“The new calculations will take into account the continued effects of sea level rise,” Iovino said.
According to a Rutgers University report released in 2019, sea levels rose an average of 1.5 feet along the New Jersey coast from 1911 to 2019, compared with the global average of 0.6 feet.
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