Tell Portsmouth City Council: Develop a Comprehensive Flood Plan that includes all neighborhoods.

Four years ago, the city of Portsmouth contracted a construction company to make the sidewalks wheelchair accessible, but failed to include in its contract retaining critical storm drains. All Portsmouth residents have the right to a flood free community. Being that this area is second to New Orleans in the “rising of sea levels” we are demanding a Comprehensive Flood Plan that includes all neighborhoods and residents. The Portsmouth Comprehensive Flood Plan does not adequately provide in full for the safety and welfare of our community. We can no longer sit here in silence and watch our communities become uninhabitable and our friends and neighbors perish in flood waters.