They range in size from an enormous five-mile storm surge barrier between Breezy Point, Queens, and Sandy Hook, New Jersey, to a series of coastal defenses built along the shorelines of lower ...

Storm surge barriers in Stamford, New Bedford, and Providence have already proved their worth and prevented damages more than the cost of their construction. Many more such barriers will be needed ...

The Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier) Owner: Rijkswaterstaat. It is the largest of 13 structures making up the Delta Works that protect southern Holland.

No surge has ever breached London's barrier. Ten massive steel gates stretch 500 yards across the River Thames. In times of danger, they're raised to defend the city against the invading North Sea.

The plan would create 2.2 miles of storm surge barriers, 50.6 miles of shoreline based measures, 11.8 miles of flooding-mitigation features and 18.7 miles of risk reduction features, according to ...

The USACE’s storm surge barrier proposals encompass a wide variety of sizes and costs. The most expensive is Alternative 2, which proposes building a five-mile storm surge barrier between Breezy ...

Similarly, the coast's features, from barriers that may disrupt the flow of the water or the depth of the ocean floor, also play an important part in a storm surge.

A storm-surge barrier similar to those in Louisiana and parts of… Will storm barriers arrive in time to stop the next flood? | Crain's New York Business Skip to main content ...

Two huge “floating sector gates,” modeled on the mammoth Maeslantkering storm-surge barrier in the Netherlands, accounted for two thirds of that price tag.

Governments in Maine, Massachusetts, California and Florida are among those that also have grappled with the issue, which gets less attention than flooding on beachfronts.