Plan to Protect Venice From High Tides OKd
From Times Wire Reports
After more than 12 years of debate and discord, Italy approved a plan to save Venice from sinking by installing mobile barriers to protect the city from high tides.
The project, approved at a Cabinet meeting, will take about eight years and $2.6 billion to complete.
The barriers would be erected on the Adriatic seabed near the entrance to the Venetian lagoon. They would be raised only when high tides threaten the city.
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