27-01-2016 06:54 via seattletimes.com

NYC flood defense plan advances, but completion years off

NEW YORK (AP) — After ocean waters poured into lower Manhattan during Superstorm Sandy, experts began dreaming up a solution: a U-shaped barrier of earthen berms, walls and gates that would keep floods out and the nation’s financial capital dry. Now, more than three years later, a version of that idea has stacked up over […]
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