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New Zealand: Actions against sea-level rise identified
2014-07-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Otago Daily Times: Turning Forbury Park racecourse into a lake, building a wall around it or raising the whole area have been rejected as options for defending Dunedin's harbourside and south city areas from sea-level rise. But a series of pumps at low-lying points and wells around its coastal fringes could be viable ways of saving one of the city's most valuable areas - home to $4.3 billion worth of infrastructure and property assets and 10,000 people - from going under water, an initial assessment of the options...
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