The Slough

The Chesapeake Sloughs, known as "the Slough", is a region of the United States of America located southeast of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.

Severely impacted by rising sea levels, economic collapse and political gridlock, this region was unable to implement the kind of cohesive flood defenses that preserved other major urban centers in the Boston-Washington urban corridor. Fragmented, local experiments at mitigation succeeded only in establishing a jagged network of makeshift, provisional seawalls that today preserve precariously rebuilt districts amidst the flooded, semi-submerged urban remnants.

The Slough is a region in transition. Infrastructure has fallen into ruin and decay, and in the shadow of the rusting high-speed maglev lines, rewilding collectives rub shoulders with avant-garde artists, while nomadic urban scavengers and reclamation corporations work to gradually reclaim the patchwork of flooded terrain and decaying urban centers.