Tonight, July 8th from 6:30-8:30pm, Janet Freedman, coastal geologist with the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council, will be at the North Kingstown Free Library demonstrating for the public how to use STORMTOOLS, an online mapping application that can show RI coastal residents how their properties will be affected in the event of storms, with varying degrees of sea level rise. For more information, see http://www.nklibrary.org/programs/stormtools-and-sea-level-rise .

STORMTOOLS was developed as part of the R.I. Shoreline Special Area Management Plan (Beach SAMP). For more information on the Beach SAMP, including tools for homeowners, businesses, and municipalities to address sea level rise, flooding, and erosion, please visit http://www.beachsamp.org/resources.