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114 shellfish aquaculture within the harbor. Ipswich's Argilla Road, the only route to Crane Beach, is already flooded by high tides a few times a month, so the town and the Trustees are collaborating on a plan to elevate the road by three feet. "I foresee towns doing a lot of this work in the coming years," says Frank Ventimiglia, op- erations manager for the town's public works department. Gloucester has been assessing its vulner- abilities since at least 2015, says Gregg Cadem- artori, the city's planning director. e city has developed plans to build flood barriers at the low-lying wastewater treatment plant and the high school, where a 2018 winter storm flooded the high school parking lot, damaging dozens of cars. Plans to protect other city as- sets will be worked into all future changes as a PHOTOGRAPHS. LEFT TO RIGHT JOHN BAILEY / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO, NORMA JOSEPH / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO On Plum Island, restoring marsh could be a cost- effective method to combat losing more coastline. Left, Gloucester has been assessing its vulnerabilities to rising sea levels since 2015. matter of course, he says. "As we upgrade, we ask, 'What should we be doing differently right now to make that infra- structure more resilient?'" Cademartori says. It is questions and choices like these that everyone needs to be asking, O'Shea says. Municipal leaders need to be planning for climate change impacts, the state needs to be finding ways to help fund these projects, and everyone needs to be active and engaged in adapting our communities to the changes ahead. Hopefully, he says, the Trustees report will help people realize how essential it is to start acting as soon as possible. "We have an opportunity to reimagine the coast and how we want it to be for the next generation," O'Shea says. "People really need to start to raise the level of urgency." onthecoast.thetrustees.org "We have an opportunity to reimagine the coast and how we want it to be for the next generation. People really need to start to raise the level of urgency." Tom O'Shea, program director for Coast & Natural Resources for the Trustees of Reservations