| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/08/13, 9:10 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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HIGHLANDS — Officials in this Raritan Bayshore community are considering an ambitious flood-control measure in the wake of Superstorm Sandy: raising the entire downtown.
In their vision, not only would every residential or commercial front door go up at least 10 feet — a process that already has begun in many parts of the Jersey shore — but every curb, crosswalk and blade of grass would as well.
By their own estimates, the process would cost less than $200 million, take two years to complete and require millions of cubic yards of fill, consisting of either dredged material from Raritan Bay,
chunks of concrete from construction sites or lots of barges full of gravel and dirt.
“The cost of doing nothing ultimately would be much higher,” said Mayor Frank Nolan, who lost his own house to Sandy and lived in a shelter for several days after the storm.
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As the shading in the map above shows, most of the peninsula is protected by hills, save the Highlands area on the northern shore.
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