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Information | M&A of Impacts | Freeboard

INDIVIDUAL ADAPTATION

In Norfolk and Hampton Roads, a number of household have invested in increasing the freeboard of their houses by individually raising their houses. However, while this adaptation to increased frequency and levels of flooding will reduce the events that actually flood the lower floor of the raised houses, it can not reduce the impacts of the frequent loss in accessibility of the property due to the adjacent streets being increasingly flooded.


The house is being raised to more than 8 feet above ground.

Neigbouring houses are not being raised.

On the particular day the streets in front of the house was already partly flooded due to the water level in the adjacent water body.

Several streets in the neigbourhood had patched of salt water.

On the particular day the water level was at about 6.5 feet on the measuring rod in front of the raised house.

At the time the pictures were taken, the water level at Sewells Point was at 3.5 feet, a level that is frequently exceeded causing significant flooding in the neighbourhood of the raised house.