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Pascrell, Velázquez Lead New York and New Jersey Colleagues Supporting Harbor and Tributaries Study


Pascrell, Velázquez Lead New York and New Jersey Colleagues Supporting Harbor and Tributaries Study
March 2, 2021, 2:51 pm | in
Pascrell, Velázquez Lead New York and New Jersey Colleagues Supporting Harbor and Tributaries Study
Work critical to protecting communities from future storm damage and flooding
 
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY-07) today led their colleagues in the New York and New Jersey congressional delegations urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to extend the deadline of a water resources management study critical to the region. The approvals for the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries focus area study are needed to protect tristate communities in the aftermath of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. ....

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'You're Walking Backwards': The $6 Billion Venice Floodgates May Not Be Enough


‘You’re Walking Backwards’: The $6 Billion Venice Floodgates May Not Be Enough
Curbed
12/16/2020
Justin Davidson
On November 3, 1966, a storm propelled by a warm Saharan wind shot up the Adriatic, pummeling northern and central Italy with rain. Venice flooded, as it had, regularly, forever. By the next morning, though, it was clear that this was no ordinary dunking, but a biblical-scale event. The storm kept churning toward the coast, so that even when the tide started to recede, the floodwaters had nowhere to go. Waves demolished 18th-century seawalls, cut off islands, drowned cattle, and obliterated vineyards. Soon, a mass of sludge, more than six-feet deep and glistening with oil that had leaked from blown-out boilers, swirled through virtually every building, and refused to ebb for nearly 24 hours. When the sea finally withdrew, in violent, sucking currents, it left canals choked with mattresses and floating rats and a city traumatized ....

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