Posted on March 3, 2020
Army Corps gives no reason for cut after Trump says it would be ‘foolish’ to build massive barrier between Sandy Hook and Point Breeze, NY
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed yesterday that it has lost federal funding for two studies on ways to prevent rising seas and bigger storms from devastating the New York/New Jersey harbor area and New Jersey’s back bays.
For the last six years, the Army Corps has been considering ways of protecting coastal areas of the two states from the sea-borne effects of climate change that killed dozens of people and caused billions of dollars in property damage during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
A year ago, the Army Corps produced an interim report laying out five options for holding back storm surge at vulnerable points in the region. By far the most ambitious proposal was an enormous Outer Harbor Barrier between Sandy Hook, NJ, and Breezy Point, NY, more than six miles long and 46 feet high, costing an estimated $118 billion and taking 25 years to build.
Source: coastalnewstoday.com
