Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center

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christine Ley

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Mar 10, 2020, 8:08:56 AM3/10/20
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We tried to go there a few times in the fall, but the road was flooded even though it hadn’t rained. Does anyone know whether the road is flooded now? It’s one of our favorite places. When I called to ask, the woman said it had to do with the tides, but I wasn’t sure about that. We’ve gone many times before without any problems.
Thanks. Chris

Cheryl Hogue

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Mar 10, 2020, 9:14:54 PM3/10/20
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King/spring tides regularly flood the road there. -- Cheryl

Marcia Watson

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Mar 10, 2020, 10:49:21 PM3/10/20
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Also if there are high winds, water may be pushed onto shore, contributing to tidal flooding. This happens even when there is no rain.

 

Marcia

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Gail Mackiernan

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Mar 11, 2020, 7:21:25 AM3/11/20
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Some low areas adjacent to Chesapeake Bay regularly flood now at highest (spring) tides or when winds force water up into the estuary. In general, apparent sea level has risen more than 15” in the Bay Area in last 100-150 years, half of this due to land subsidence and half to actual rise in sea level. A road I lived on in Gloucester Point, VA, while attending graduate school in the late 1960s, now floods regularly whereas it never flooded then, even in a couple of hurricanes. 

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville

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Steve Long

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Mar 11, 2020, 12:35:07 PM3/11/20
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NOAA has a website that shows tidal predictions that include wind as well as the usual astronomical tides.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb/

The Cambridge MD tide station is probably the closest with respect to what is happening on the approach to the Environmental Center, but it is on a different river, so timing will be a little different and so will some of the wind effects, but the situations for the Center and Cambridge are similar enough that it should provide pretty similar guidance.

What you really need to know is how to correlate what is predicted to occur at Cambridge with what will actually occur at the Center.  I have done that for the approach to my home in Oxford, but it takes some effort to watch the predictions and then watch what happens at my place. 

That would probably be difficult for an occassional visitor to the Center.  But, if I was somebody who worked at the Center on a regular basis, I would have made that effort to know when it will be hard for me to get in or out.  So, I suggest that you contact the Center by phone and ask if somebody has done that, yet, and if so, could they tell you the relationship.  If they have not yet had somebody do that, maybe if you show them this link and suggest that they do it, they will.

Steve Long

JAMES SPEICHER

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Mar 11, 2020, 3:57:58 PM3/11/20
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I'm only an interested, distant observer, but doesn't the facility have timely advisories when access is expected to be an issue?

Jim S

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