Miami Forever flood-resilience program
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Facing a rising Biscayne Bay, Miami runs a data-driven flood-resilience program. Its Department of Resilience and Public Works modelled the city's eight drainage basins against 50-year sea-level-rise scenarios, producing a 2024 master plan that prioritises stormwater pumps, injection wells and seawalls. Thirteen pump stations operate today; the 2017 Miami Forever Bond earmarked $192M toward the multi-billion-dollar buildout.
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The gap is the finding. Thirteen pump stations operate today and the 2017 Miami Forever Bond earmarked $192M for flood defence, while the city's own modelling puts the full buildout at $3.8-5.4 billion — so the money raised covers a small fraction of what the plan calls for, and the master plan's job is to decide the order in which the rest gets built.
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Its Department of Resilience and Public Works modelled the city's eight drainage basins against 50-year sea-level-rise scenarios, producing a 2024 master plan that prioritises stormwater pumps, injection wells and seawalls
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Thirteen pump stations operate today; the 2017 Miami Forever Bond earmarked $192M toward the multi-billion-dollar buildout
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Thirteen pump stations operate today and the 2017 Miami Forever Bond earmarked $192M for flood defence, while the city's own modelling puts the full buildout at $3.8-5.4 billion
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the money raised covers a small fraction of what the plan calls for, and the master plan's job is to decide the order in which the rest gets built
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The city's own modelling puts the full flood-defence buildout at $3.8–5.4 billion — several times its annual budget — so funding and sequencing, not engineering, are the binding constraint
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- Operator
- City of Miami — Department of Resilience and Public Works
- Actor types
- city-government
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- 2017 Miami Forever Bond ($400M GO bond; $192M for sea-level rise/flooding)
- Cost
- ≈$3.8–5.4B planned capital program
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- Not recorded
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- Exit conditions
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5 source dossiers
City of Miami — Stormwater Master Plan (Office of Capital Improvements)
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src-ecd973ad754e8d29- Publisher
- Name not classified · miami.gov
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-19
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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The city's page for the stormwater master plan. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.
City of Miami — Miami Forever Bond
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src-21d468b40480746a- Publisher
- Name not classified · miami.gov
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-07-19
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- 2026-08-27
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The city's page for the 2017 bond and its allocations. The page states no publication date.
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CDM Smith — Miami Stormwater Master Plan
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src-ed9f604f4cc9aec5- Publisher
- Name not classified · cdmsmith.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-12-12
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-07-19
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- 2026-08-27
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The consulting engineer's account of the master plan it produced for the city.
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Miami Today — 'Miami needs $5 billion to fight flooding' (2024-04-16)
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src-8abd6d5091337b30- Publisher
- Name not classified · miamitodaynews.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2024-04-16
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- 2026-07-19
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- 2026-08-27
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Press: $3.8–5.4B program, 13 pumps today vs 93 target, 2,000+ recharge wells, 490 outfalls, 93 mi shoreline, 50-yr SLR horizon.
Adaptation Clearinghouse — Miami Forever Bond
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src-ddaa8f05a70d654d- Publisher
- Name not classified · adaptationclearinghouse.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Record last verified
- 2026-07-19
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- 2026-08-27
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A policy clearinghouse record of the bond. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Miami Forever flood-resilience program” — Miami, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/miami-flood-resilience/ (last verified 2026-07-19). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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