‘Everybody has to take action’ is a locally-sourced article, including several CCEA-connected individuals, in the Chester County Press, 12/25/2024, by Gabbie Burton.

Jim Wylie, conservation co-chair of the Sierra Club’s SEPA Group, stressed the impacts of flooding:

“I’ve seen the infrastructure be stressed, particularly, bridges over swollen creeks and part of that is due to over development, having less permeable surfaces and having more stormwater runoff when it starts to rain hard. But some of it’s also the intensity of the storms, number of inches of rain per hour that gets dropped.”

You can read the full article here. Below, graphic published in the article, from Friends of the Earth.