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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 14, 2019, 10:25:58 pm
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Mayor de Blasio’s $10 BILLION plan to save Manhattan from rising sea levels: NYC proposes extending the city's shoreline into the East River by TWO BLOCKS to create higher ground
Study launched by city estimates 37% of Lower Manhattan risks flood by 2050
With estimated 6-foot sea level rise, expects risk area to raise to 50% by 2100
Plan proposes extending the shoreline up to 500 feet – or two full city blocks
City is also hoping to fortify Lower Manhattan with grassy berms and barriers
By Associated Press and Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:35 EDT, 14 March 2019 | Updated: 16:56 EDT, 14 March 2019
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has revealed a plan to protect Lower Manhattan from rising sea levels by surrounding it with earthen berms and extending its shoreline by as much as 500 feet (152 meters).
The plan piggybacks on a climate resilience study released by the city today, which found that roughly 37 percent of Lower Manhattan properties will be at risk from storm surges in the next 30 years.
And by 2100, it says this will rise to almost 50 percent.
De Blasio’s new plan aims to combat an estimated six feet of sea level rise that's expected to encroach upon the city by the end of the century.
In addition to fortifying most of Lower Manhattan with grassy berms and removable barriers, which would cost roughly $500 million, the city has proposed adding more land to the lowest-lying areas, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Battery.
Doing this would take several years, and could cost as much as $10 billion.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6809285/NYC-mayor-Extend-shoreline-protect-city-storms.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6809285/NYC-mayor-Extend-shoreline-protect-city-storms.html)
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New York City is more likely to drown in debt than drown in water
This mayor is blissfully oblivious to NYC’s financial situation
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Much of NYC has been a sea bed. We know this because fossils of ancient marine life has been found there
But NYC is broke. Were is he going to get the money? This is another example of were progressivism leads
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Much of NYC has been a sea bed. We know this because fossils of ancient marine life has been found there
But NYC is broke. Were is he going to get the money? This is another example of were progressivism leads
Your tax dollars, of course.
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Your tax dollars, of course.
Except NYC under De Blasio has been chasing away tax payers now along with the newly elected ditz
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Except NYC under De Blasio has been chasing away tax payers now along with the newly elected ditz
He'll demand federal dollars and take it from every state.
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Much of NYC has been a sea bed. We know this because fossils of ancient marine life has been found there
But NYC is broke. Were is he going to get the money? This is another example of were progressivism leads
People don't ask where are you going to get the money for the Space force. Besides look at all the money we saved by not giving the tax breaks to Amazon, we could use some of that money.
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He'll demand federal dollars and take it from every state.
Good luck with that
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Seal level Rise, more likely ground subsidence, no?
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Seal level Rise, more likely ground subsidence, no?
It is easy to claim victory over a problem that does not exist.