The Anti-Submersion Plan that Raises Anger

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By raising the reference level for marine submersion, the revision of the coastal risk prevention plan threatens to freeze part of the island in time. Some residents and elected officials see this as a threat to its future and are commissioning a counter-assessment; the State, for its part, invokes the memory of Xynthia and rising sea levels. Some maps carry more weight than dikes. On the island of Noirmoutier, the one the State is preparing to …