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  2. New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier - Wikipedia

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    The New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier is a proposed flood barrier system to protect the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary from storm surges. The proposed system would consist of one barrier located across the mouth of Lower New York Bay , possibly between Sandy Hook (N.J.) and Rockaway (N.Y.), and a second on the upper East River to provide ...

  3. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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    It was originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control. [5] They were used in 2005 to reinforce levees around New Orleans in the weeks between Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. [6] During the June 2008 Midwest floods, 8,200 metres (9,000 yd) of HESCO barrier wall were shipped to Iowa. [7]

  4. Flood barrier - Wikipedia

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    A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier. A surge barrier is almost always part of a larger flood protection system consisting of floodwalls , levees (also known as dikes), and other constructions ...

  5. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier. A surge barrier is almost always part of a larger flood protection system consisting of floodwalls , levees (also known as dikes), and other constructions ...

  6. Revetment - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt and sandbag revetment with a geotextile filter. A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.

  7. Slurry wall - Wikipedia

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    Slurry wall construction was used in 1967–1968 to construct the "bathtub" that surrounded the foundations of most of the World Trade Center site in New York City. [4] In the 1980s, the Red Line Northwest Extension project in Boston was one of the first projects in the US to use the modern form of the technology, with hydromill trench cutters ...

  8. NYC police remove barricades from Wall Street bull

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    The New York Post reports that police removed the barricades surrounding the Charging Bull sculpture on Tuesday. The bull had been penned in since September NYC police remove barricades from Wall ...

  9. Dolos - Wikipedia

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    Dolosse are normally made from un-reinforced concrete, poured into a steel mould. [1]: 11 The concrete will sometimes be mixed with small steel fibers to strengthen it in the absence of reinforcement. Durban's South Pier with a line of interlocking dolosse, South Africa. They are used to protect harbour walls, breakwaters and