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Work begins on wall for 2 Sandy-devastated towns
2014-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Two wealthy New Jersey shore towns that were among the hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy nearly two years ago began building a 4-mile-long steel wall Thursday, an expensive effort that the state says is needed to protect the communities but that some residents and environmentalists oppose. State and local officials watched Thursday morning as the work began where the Atlantic Ocean tore through the sand and cut a channel into Barnegat Bay on the other side of the barrier island the communities share,...
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