»Return to the dialup site Vt. agency says Irene had lessons for new climate

MONTPELIER — A new report by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources says flooding from Tropical Storm Irene shows the state needs to be better prepared for future flooding.

The state’s “Climate Change Team” says climate change data predicts that Vermont will get more extreme rain events in the future, so “flood resiliency” may be a critical adaptation to climate changes.

The report shows that Vermont’s river communities, which were hit hard by Irene, are vulnerable to intensive flood disasters.

The report begins to count the costs associated with that vulnerability and asks some of the hard questions our state and communities will need to answer in order to build flood resiliency.

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