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Bloomberg: Could a surge-protection barrier have saved New York City from much of the flood ravages of superstorm Sandy?
Malcolm Bowman and other hydrologists are convinced it could have.
Bowman, an oceanographer who has spent much of a 40-year career warily watching the tidal flows in and around New York Harbor, recalls being on the construction site of Manhattan's South Ferry subway station a few years ago.
"It was just a concrete box underground then," said Bowman,, then an observer filming a documentary.......
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Billions spent on flood barriers now might save New York later
Posted by Bloomberg: Ken Wells and Mark Drajem on November 18th, 2012
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