The Deep Well Project – a Hilton Hilton-based nonprofit – patches damages driven by environmental stressors. By Mary Dimitrov
By Sarah Haselhorst and Mary Dimitrov, The Island Packet, March 9, 2023
There’s no longer a trace that Audrey Hamilton’s great-granddaughter fell through the kitchen floor of her great-grandmother’s mobile home.
Or that the refrigerator the teen was trying to get to sank below the soggy presswood. Both were swallowed up after the floor had been weighed down and weakened by a leak and trapped moisture.
It wasn’t the first — or last — such incident since Hamilton moved in nearly 30 years ago.
Hamilton is one of thousands of people living in affordable housing in Beaufort County whose homes near the coast are being increasingly impacted by climate change. The residents report rotted wood, mold and flooding, which can be directly related to environmental causes.
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