This flood, on Dec. 27, 2022, highlighted how bad things can get in an urban neighborhood on the front lines of climate change. In a city of bluffs and hills, there is perhaps no other place more vulnerable. South Park is low-lying and filled in with homes, businesses and heavy industry. After decades of industrial pollution, discriminatory mortgage-lending practices, known as redlining, and disinvestment, flooding is only the latest injustice Seattle’s largest riverfront community has had to bear.
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West Seattle Blog editor
By: Alex Garland
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The Duwamish River Valley hosts three freeways, two international airports, an international seaport, and a river so polluted it was declared a federal Superfund site, with over 300 industries lining the banks.
Seattle’s only majority people of color and immigrant neighborhoods are also the most vulnerable; with more families, lower incomes and higher asthma rates, all living and working by Seattle’s only river.
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