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-CAN VENICE BE SAVED?
-
-Water and Venice have always a complicated relationship.
-The world's most famously wet city is also one of its most
-famously endangered ones, forever being flooded by its
-signature canals. Even since the 14th century, Italian
-engineers have dreamed of ways to control the water. Now
-a solution may be at hand: the Moses project, a vast series
-of sea gates that may finally the sodden city dry.
-
-The need for Venetian water control has never been greater.
-Especially high tides have caused major floods 10 times in
-the past 67 years alone, most diastrously in 1966 when the
-water in parts of the city climbed to more than 1.83 m.
-Compression of sediment under the city, along with rising sea
-levels, often causes smaller floods, shutting down businesses
-and making sidewalks and squares impossible.
-
-The source of the problem is geography. Venice is primarily a
-small cluster of interlocked islands set in the northern end of
-a 536-sq.-km lagoon. A long ridge of land seperates the lagoon
-from the far larger Gulf of Venice except at three major inlets.
-These openings allow high gulf tides to become high Venetian tides,
-with the water sometimes climbing far enough to swamp the city's
-seawalls.
-
-In 1984 a commission composed of Italy's 50 largest engeneering and
-construction firms was formed to find a way to control the water
-flow through the inlets, and Moses is it. Moses, an acronym for the
-plan's technical name as well as a lyrical reference to the parting of
-the Red Sea, calls for 78 hollow sea gates---each up to 5 m thick, 20 m
-wide and 27.5 m long---to be hinged to foundations, or caissons, in the
-seabed and to lie flat there. The gates would usually be filled with
-water, but when tides rises to a height of 1 m or more, compressse air
-would pump the water out. The free end of the gates would then float
-upwards, breaking the surface after about 30 minutes and sealing off
-the inlets. Sea locks would permit permit ships to pass while the gates
-are up.
-
-The project---which would take as long as ten years and cost at least
-\$2.7 billion---could still run into obstacles, especially given the
-fickle nature of Italian politics. Concerned that gates would be raised
-so frequently and remain there so long that they would cause water in the
-lagoon to grow stagnant, Greens are making that argument in an
-environmental-impact review that could delay or even scuttle construction.
-Even so, this is the closest Venice has come to a permanent solution to
-its water problems in 700 years. By local bureaucratic standards, that's
-not too bad.
-
-%---By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Jeff Israely/Rome---Time, June 2, 2003
-\end{document}