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HTTP:: Venice Still at Risk Despite Six Billion Dollar Floodgates
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The Italian city of Venice is one of the most beautiful, culturally rich and endangered places in the world. With its homes built atop petrified trees, and directly on water, it stands to reason that any change in water levels has the power to significantly damage the 1,300-year-old town. It is located in the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Sea, inside a lagoon that features extensive mudflats. Venice is located atop such a mudflat, and has been so since it first appeared. For some time, engineers have begun constructions on a six-billion-dollar project aimed at creating floodgates to thwart threats on the city, but new analyses show that the MOSE Project may not be enough, NPR reports. The MOSE (Experimental Electromechanical Module) Project was designed to incorporate a number of mobile floodgates, able to lift up from the sea, and seal the Venetian Lagoons from the Adriatic Sea. The project is well underway at the lagoon inlets Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia, and, in!
spite of coming under review in 2006, it was reinstated the following year. The system is also made to work together with other defense mechanisms, including coastal reinforcement and paving improvements on the lagoon environment. Engineers at FIAT are in charge of the work. Plans are that, until 2014, when MOSE is schedu...
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