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Norfolk, Va.’s city council has approved a $2.6-billion coastal resilience partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, despite lingering questions regarding funding and allegations that the plan provides insufficient protection for lower-income neighborhoods.
To be carried out over ten years, the five-phase program would protect the city of about 235,000 residents from coastal storms and associated flooding by constructing nearly eight miles of floodwalls, storm-surge barriers, a one-mile levee, tide gates and pump stations. Nature-based systems to function with or restore natural processes to reduce storm surge are also part of the program, as are property-specific measures to limit flood damage.