Dawson City spent more than $600,000 last year dealing with damage to roads and pipes caused by melting permafrost.
A recently-published report says the shifting ground, a result of climate change, can do a lot of damage to infrastructure such as water and sewer systems.
— cbc.ca
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I have a cousin who used to work on issues like this, but for seasonal permafrost melt, I think. The solution he was interested in was using heat-pumps (on a geothermal loop through the soil beneath the house) to keep the soil frozen during the summer. For global warming this would probably turn out to be tremendously expensive. Better to figure out the cheapest ways to retrofit, brace, add outriggers, etc...
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