re: Trump tweets about proposed NYC seawall

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For 200 billion, someone could design something I would like to call the New York Harbor barrier plan. It would be a wall built off shore, it would start in Sandy Hook, NJ to Fort Tilden, New York. On the back side around the interstate 295 bridge where it crosses from Queens back to the mainland, you would have another structure.

It would be an environmental structure like the Dutch with gates to allow tidal flow, and a central floodgate. In looking at terrain and water depths, the system could be constructed of hard line structures with solid gates or water filled bags or balloons to close the gate. The balloon gate would be filled in times of approaching storms.

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the harbor barrier plan was costed out and at those depths cost more that what is being designed and built now.