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Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC
Posted by Associated Press: Jennifer Peltz on June 12th, 2013
Associated Press: Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming.
The plan - which would also include the building of marshes and the flood-proofing of homes and hospitals - is one of the biggest, most sweeping projects ever proposed for defending a major U.S. city from the rising seas and...
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