Dive summary:
- After Sandy introduced car and subway tunnels to the ocean, advocates of constructing surge barriers to protect New York are going to be heard more clearly, at least for a while.
- Advocates say a multbillion-dollar construction project to build the gates and the gear to raise and lower them would capitalize on a technology proven in other cities, including Providence, R.I., which raised its gates against Sandy.
- Skeptics argue that, among other issues, global sea-level rise makes it difficult to know whether a particular design would be effective.
From the article:
The vast destruction wreaked by the storm surge in New York could have been prevented with a sea barrier of the type that protects major cities in Europe, some scientists and engineers say. ...
