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8 Years Later, Sandy Still Costing Transit Systems Billions

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) _ Once a gleaming symbol of early 20th-century ambition and prosperity, Hoboken’s grand rail terminal now sits as a somber reminder of the daunting challenges facing mass transit in the New York region. Eight years ago Thursday, …

Engineers Study Failed Levees, Research Potential Solutions

The field report is full of levees overtopped, breached and scoured. There are sand boils, crest depressions and sink holes. Under seepage. Slope failure. Surface erosion. A breach that wasn’t repaired after the last flood. It’s all in a 2016 …