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Drowning Belfast

  • Fri, September 27, 2024
  • Fri, October 25, 2024
  • 5 sessions
  • Fri, September 27, 2024, 10:00 AM 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Fri, October 04, 2024, 10:00 AM 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Fri, October 11, 2024, 10:00 AM 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Fri, October 18, 2024, 10:00 AM 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Fri, October 25, 2024, 10:00 AM 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • United Methodist Church - Fellowship Hall
  • 12

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Sea level is rising.

From the Belfast Boat House to the big bridge, the entire Belfast waterfront is built on filled land that will flood as the oceans rise. It's already flooding.

What will the future bring as everyone from the City of Belfast to private property owners and businesses make the hard calculation as they all must decide to endure, fortify, abandon, or retreat?

We'll hear from property owners and business people, harbor experts, planners, scientists to help us understand the challenges and the costs and the time frame.

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Instructor: Mike Hurley

Lifelong boater, former Mayor and City Councilor, waterfront property owner, and astute observer of science and facts.


Photo credit: Fred Bowers - Storm flooding January 2024, Front Street Shipyard, Belfast Maine.


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info@belfastseniorcollege.org

(207) 707-6010
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ADDRESS:
Belfast Senior College
9 Field Street, Suite 330
Belfast, ME 04915

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OFFICE HOURS:
Tuesday 10-1, and by appointment

(Note, during registration periods we are also open Thursdays 10-1.)

Land Acknowledgement

We want to respectfully acknowledge and honor the Wabanaki Confederacy—specifically the Abenaki, Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Nations—who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We recognize that we are on their ancestral, traditional, and unceded homelands. We affirm their inherent tribal sovereignty, pay respect to elders past and present, and commit to the ongoing work of truth-telling and decolonization in Maine and beyond.

Important Dates

Fall session begins September 22.

Winter classes start February 1.


Course Proposal Deadlines

Winter 2027: DUE November 2.

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