By Mara Gay
The Wall Street Journal
New York City will spend $100 million to help build a barrier of flood walls and earthen berms to protect lower Manhattan from flooding during storms, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The city will use the money to build the system along the tip of Manhattan, which was hard-hit during superstorm Sandy nearly three years ago and contains critical public works such as the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. Two people died in the area during the October 2012 storm.
“So much of what is important to the city is in lower Manhattan; it all has to be protected,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference announcing the funding blocks away from the East River.
The project is one link in the city’s so-called OneNYC plan, a $20 billion effort to safeguard the city in the face of extreme weather and reduce its carbon footprint. The effort began under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though under a different name, and will be paid for with a blend of city money, federal grants and state dollars.
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