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Danielle Mieler spread out maps of Alameda across a concrete table at a park on a bluff overlooking the city of nearly 80,000. A ferry from San Francisco approached the island’s sandy western shore.
Each map highlighted a different flood risk — one showed low-lying areas in blue and green, another projected sea level rise in blocks of purple. In one of the more ominous maps, Alameda appeared in red, indicating areas where saturated soil could liquify during an earthquake.
Mieler, the city’s sustainability and resilience manager, pointed to a grey stretch of land in the city’s center — the only area her team does not expect to plan protections from future flooding, she said. Still, because Alameda is an island, flooding will affect all residents…