Facing the Change: 50% of Lennox Island, P.E.I., could be underwater in 50 years

OntarioVanMan

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Isn't that kinda like New Orleans they are sinking need to put in pumping stations and build sea walls.
thats to the idiots that built a city on swampland....doh....

of NYC..when you see the pics of Battery Park the seawall is right there..NYC is only a few feet above sea level....more Storms like Sandy will result in even more loss of life and damage...
 
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OntarioVanMan

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storm surge gates such as these are whats needed now to protect NJ and NYC in the future to prevent what happened with what we saw with Storm Sandy...much could have been saved....
The Netherland’s Impressive Storm Surge Barriers | Amusing Planet


The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level. As much as 50% of its land lie less than one meter above sea level. With two thirds of its area vulnerable to flooding, flood control is an important issue for the Netherlands. The country utilizes a system of embankments, dikes and sluice gates along the seafront and on the mouths of the rivers to prevent storm water from surging in from the sea.

In 1953, after a massive flood in the North Sea that killed 1,835 people, displaced 70,000 more and caused damages worth 1 billion Dutch guilders, the government started building a series of dams, sluices, locks, dykes, levees, and storm surge barriers around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta to protect the area from flooding. Collectively known as the Delta Works or North Sea Protection Works, the barriers are an engineering marvel that the American Society of Civil Engineers has named one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World.”

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