A proposal was to build on floating structures.
Attitudes about building in the port area and low parts of the town have to be challenged. Today
new constructions are built with a plinth height of 2.20 m when plinth height should be around
3 m to prevent flooding in the next 100 years
NONAM Risk Assessment and Stakeholder Investment. Multidisciplinary Workshop in Reykjavík 26 – 27 August 2010
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large volumes of water being pumped from the inner
fjord to the sea
• Use the water! The increased amount of water can be utilised commercially. This will call for
the conversion of some areas. However, there is a considerable time in advance of the climate
change to take place and this allows a long planning period. This calls for a long-term vision of
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development. A proposal was to build on floating structures.
• Attitudes about building in the port area and low parts of the town have to be challenged. Today
new constructions are built with a plinth height of 2.20 m when plinth height should be around
3 m to prevent flooding in the next 100 years
• Building a dynamic sea barrier which can quickly be set up by if the sea is rising. The wharf
area
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proposal for landslide protection measures for the
southern part of Seyðisfjörður.
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Figure 2. The southern part of the town of Seyðisfjörður and the mountainside to the south
and east of the settlement with the names of locations and landscape features discussed in
the text.
2 Site description and geological setting
The village of Seyðisfjörður is located at the head of the fjord Seyðisfjörður, see Map
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