By adamg on Tue., 3/18/2025 - 9:43 am
John Vitagliano, former BTD commissioner and Massport board member, makes the case, allows how it won't be cheap, but says the costs of not doing it would be far worse.
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It would have been cheap to
By Anonymous
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 11:24am
It would have been cheap to built 30 years ago instead of building up 200 billion dollar in real estate in a landfill tidal flat. The developers and officials made out like kings and now its on the public to pay for their greed?
No
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 1:26pm
All this would do would push water into other areas and destroy the ecology of the harbor and harbor islands.
It will also be obsolete as soon as it is built, if not before.
Make the Seaport pay for a Seattle 1890 solution: fill in to raise the street level as the tides rise. They built in an area known to be problematic - they need to pay, not the state, not the fed.
The ecology of the area will change regardless
By ScottB
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 2:14pm
Several feet of sea level rise will submerge places like Belle Isle Marsh and the Neponset Estuary. And the Seaport isn't the only place at risk. Raising the airport would be even more expensive than raising the street level in the Seaport, and probably more expensive than a barrier system to boot. There's nowhere within an hour or so of Boston which would be suitable for a new airport, either, and like it or not, an airport is critical infrastructure in a modern economy.
Check out the barrier New Bedford built in the 1960s
By hydeparkish
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 3:21pm
It's a bit smaller but similar concept.
https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Work...
Or Providence, also in the 1960s
By Ron Newman
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:16pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Point_Hurricane_...
Wrong thread.
By Lee
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 8:05pm
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How Expanse-esque, and
By Frelmont
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:33pm
How ‘The Expanse’-esque, and equally science-fiction.
With all the motions going on in the world you’d think the governments are well convinced we are past the tipping-point towards experiencing and enduring the dreaded climactic positive feedback loop.
No, best we retrench elsewhere.
It could work for awhile...
By Don't Panic
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:44am
His plan sounds a lot like the Delta Project in the Netherland which took 40 years to build and cost an estimated 13 billion dollars to complete. Boston Harbor is a lot smaller though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
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