Increasingly, the seawall at Quinault Indian Nation can no longer hold back the Pacific. So locals are building on higher ground, while other nations and the U.S. government take notes on what’s involved and what it costs
Next door, Sonny Curley had to carry his elderly mother to safety. “Up until a couple of years ago I thought we could just stay here and it would just be high water once a year,” he said. Mr. Curley is a commercial fisherman, comfortable with the ocean – a descendant of Chief Taholah, after whom the village is named. But after the flooding two years ago, which lingered for four or five days, “we realized there’s no way,” he said.
But Daniel Papp, a Quinault labourer who was burying water pipe on a recent day, has already set his eyes on a lot near the rear of the subdivision, on a small hill overlooking the forest that, he hopes, his children can use to sled in the winter.“It’s a preservation project,” says Guy Capoeman, president of the Quinault Indian Nation. “If we don’t get everyone on the hill, our folks are going to continue to live in danger.”Guy Capoeman is president of the Quinault Indian Nation.
The Quinault reservation boundaries were set in an 1855 treaty, with the village located in an area that had previously been a seasonal fishing grounds. Flooding has been a regular occurrence. The part of the village where Mr. Curley lives was once swamp, he said. The Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the seawall, “has been telling them to get out this corner of the village,” he said.
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