A runway at LaGuardia Airport, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Interstate 78 are all sinking faster than the rest of New York City, scientists found - affecting flooding risks as sea levels rise.
Land can sink for several reasons. In New York City, much of it can be linked to the retreating of glaciers from the last Ice Age, when ice sheets weighed down the land and caused the crust to stretch and sag beneath areas such as the northeastern United States. New York City, however, was on the periphery of the sagging area and bulged upward. As the ice sheets began retreating, the land began slowly leveling out, and drooping areas began rising while bulging areas began sinking.
The study also found some unexpected areas where land was rising. For instance, in Brooklyn, East Williamsburg’s Newton Creek showed about 2 millimeters of uplift per year. The study notes that the area has a massive engineering project recovering and treating polluted groundwater from the creek’s aquifer, which could cause land to rise. But rising land can also destabilize infrastructure.
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