U.S. to Urge Barriers, Elevation to Fight New Jersey Back Bay Flooding
The federal government will recommend flood control measures including storm surge barriers, floodwalls and elevating homes and other buildings in a report later this year on combating back bay flooding, a major problem in New Jersey that gets comparatively less attention than oceanfront storm surge.
Since Nov. 2016, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been studying ways to reduce or prevent flooding along back bays in New Jersey and elsewhere. Governments in Massachusetts, California, Florida and Maine are among those that also have grappled with the issue.
Such gradual and insidious flooding caused major damage on the East Coast during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, even though more attention was paid to damage from oceanfront waves pounding on the beachfront
Such gradual and insidious flooding caused major damage on the East Coast during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, even though more attention was paid to damage from.
Natural solutions including so-called 'living shorelines,' reefs, wetland restoration and submerged aquatic vegetation are also mentioned as possible solutions.