In the Los Angeles Basin, researchers found that Black, Latino, and Asian residents were — respectively— 79%, 17%, and 11% more likely than white residents to be exposed to waist-high flooding.
and the San Gabriel River — as well as storm drainage systems that were originally built seven decades ago to make the region habitable, researchers say.
Major floods would occur, they say, between the Dominguez Channel on the west and the Los Angeles River on the east, with some of them pushing into the communities of Carson, Paramount, Compton, Bell Gardens, The new climate predictions released in the UC Irvine study show that massive flooding in the Los Angeles Basin would disproportionately harm low-lying Black and poor neighborhoods.
“We can require certain flood-related requirements in future construction,” said Christopher Koontz, acting director of Long Beach’s development services department. “But many of our existing homes along the flood control channels are more than 100 years old, and we’re in the middle of a housing shortage.”
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