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Army Corps of Engineers revises plan for bayside flood protection
The scaled-down plan, costing $8B, omits floodgates for places like Manasquan and Barnegat
TED GOLDBERG / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed a revised plan to protect communities from bayside flooding.
The revamped plan, which would involve spending nearly $8 billion on flood mitigation measures like house elevation and nature-based solutions, is about half of the corps’ original budget of about $16 billion. Under the new proposal, around 6,000 residential structures (down from 19,000 in the first proposal) would be elevated …
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