SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- As rising seas threaten to flood hundreds of toxic sites along the coast of the U.S. state of California, the risk of flood-related contamination will fall disproportionately on the state's most marginalized communities, a new study led by researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Los Angeles, has suggested.
The study identified 736 facilities at risk of coastal flooding and an additional 173 with projected groundwater encroachment under California's high-risk aversion scenario, which projects that sea levels could rise by more than six feet by the end of the century.
