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Your harbor barrier mega project only works if you also fortify the coast north and south of your mega dike. Otherwise you just get an end run flood situation that fills the harbor from either side of the barrier, and still floods all of the susceptible areas.
still makes more sense than trying to fortify the every inch of the city that meets the water. Doing that successfully seems impossible to me.
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“The dream: a public amphitheater, right by the water. There, 1,000 people could enjoy free public performances by big and small cultural organizations from all over, including Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Urbanity Dance, and Circus Up, among many others.
It would be a place where anybody who wants to could put on a show. The amphitheater would include lighting and power on site, which would make performing cheaper and simpler.
The proposal comes after years of public discussions and planning between the city and Related Beal, the company developing the site, and a huge consortium of arts groups who have joined forces to push for something ambitious there.
“Everyone came together to say, ‘Hey, we can do something bigger and better together, to benefit not just us, but this region, for generations,’” said Bradley Vernatter, CEO of Boston Lyric Opera. “You can see how this creates ... an opportunity, and a hope and joy, that is much bigger than any of us can do on our own.”
The design also includes a proper dock, a place to launch canoes, dragon boats, and artwork into the water easily, part of a wider plan to bring the entire Fort Point Channel to life……”
To bring more public art to Fort Point, residents and developers are working together — yes, together - The Boston Globe
The plan for a new "Boston Common on the water" is taking a rare kind of collaboration.
A proposed waterfront amphitheater gets one step closer to reality
A waterfront amphitheater in Fort Point is poised for state approval — but only after pressure from the Boston arts community prompted last-minute changes to the design in two recent public meetings.
Isn't the primary concern about Boston flooding related to intense floodwater hitting right at the oldest, most developed parts of the city where there's lots of underground or at-grade legacy infrastructure right up against the water/flood zones and the highest density of residential housing as well as critical infrastructure like hospitals? If you block the downtown via this Hull/Deer Island Dike, but then have water start creeping in from the outer extremes beyond the dike (i.e. Rumney Marsh, Cohasset), doesn't that still allow those lower-density outlying areas (and natural marshlands) to more easily absorb (and recover from) water infiltration before it begins affecting the underground T and power lines going to MGH, etc?
With the kinds of storm surges anticipated, the surge is not going to just go through Rumney Marsh or Hingham. Those surges will breach and likely wipe out low-lying parts of Winthrop and Hull -- creating clear paths into the harbor. Unless you seriously reinforce Winthrop and Hull you have a solid wall with big screen doors on either side.
The "build extensive levies/sea walls around the entire perimeter of the city" plan would also require this sort of reinforcement, but on a much larger scale, everywhere, with more points of failure, right?
Yes, @stick n move 's drawing for the megaproject is inaccurate. It should have also included lines along Hull, Winthrop, and probably Revere, at least on the Atlantic sides.
To do this right, it is more like a 20 mile mega project, but still seems more effective than trying to patchwork 70 miles of complex shoreline inside the harbor area.
