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Flood gates are dropped from a plan to protect the Jersey Shore's back bays from catastrophic storms

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Huge gates at the mouths of three inlets and barriers across bays are no longer part of a plan to protect New Jersey’s back bays.

Instead, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to rely more on elevating thousands of homes, hardening police and fire stations, hospitals.

The changes would reduce the cost of the plan from $16 billion to $7.6 billion .

Back bay flooding caused extensive damage during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 .

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90

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92

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39

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formal

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English

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55

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short-lived

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