This project focuses on how MassDEP can provide assistance to water utilities for adapting to climate change effects such as sea level rise, an increase in storm intensity and rising temperatures. Through interviews with MassDEP water experts, water associations and utilities, we identified ways MassDEP can assist utilities in adapting to changing weather conditions. Our final deliverable is a list of recommendations of how MassDEP can provide assistance to utilities in need of protecting themselves against potential weather related threats.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Flannagan, John Charles
• Catarius, Adrian Michael
• Weisman, Matthew James
• Garcia, Saul Emmanuel

Subject

• Environment
• Infrastructure
• Water
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050410-131657

Keyword

• Climatic changes--Risk management
• Climate change mitigation

Advisor

• Demetry, Chrysanthe
• Vaz, Rick

Year

• 2010

Center

• Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP)

Date created

• 2010-05-04

Location

• Boston

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright