{"id":129639,"date":"2024-06-03T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129639"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:34:05","slug":"local-paper-parts-of-south-carolina-are-sinking-and-quickly-can-we-slow-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129639","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Parts of South Carolina are sinking, and quickly. Can we slow it down?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coastal areas up and down the East Coast are sinking at the same time sea levels are rising. Parts of Beaufort, Colleton and Charleston counties sank more than 2 inches since 2007, and some areas on St. Helena Island sank more than 3 inches,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/environment\/maps-south-carolina-coast-sin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Post and Courier previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinking land \u2014 a problem also called subsidence and settlement \u2014 can make flooding worse,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/septic-tank-failures-coastal-south-carolina\/article_6cfbdcda-c6a1-11ee-aa80-d3f4019351fc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cause septic tanks to fail<\/a>, damage underground infrastructure, and cause buildings and bridges to crack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So can we slow it down? Here\u2019s what we found out.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/rising-waters\/south-carolina-land-sinking-subsidence-aquifer-infrastructure\/article_0bd10c9c-e6c6-11ee-b9e5-3741f3553bc6.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Parts of South Carolina are sinking, and quickly. Can we slow it down? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVQX3VRcFk\">https:\/\/t.co\/xVQX3VRcFk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1797570079724372319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastal areas up and down the East Coast are sinking at the same time sea levels are rising. Parts of Beaufort, Colleton and Charleston counties sank more than 2 inches since 2007, and some areas on St. Helena Island sank<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129639\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,683,140,95,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-science-technology","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129641,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129639\/revisions\/129641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}