Description: Saugus River Floodgate Project is a coastal flood protection project to provide protection to Lynn, Malden and Revere, and the town of Saugus, Mass
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Location Proposed Location of the Saugus River Floodgates Lynn City of Lynn - 1,400 Homes, Businesses and Industries Point of Pines Point of Pines - 380 Homes Revere2.jpeg Behind Revere Beach Reservation - 1,750 Homes and Businesses Rumney-Marsh 1,650 Acres of Estuary in Rumney Marsh, Saugus 1,100 Homes & Businesses Town-Line-Brook.jpeg Everett, Malden, Revere's Town Line Brook Floodplain - 1,350 Homes & Businesses The Study and Project The Regional Saugus River Floodgate Project is the primary option to re
The US Army Corps of Engineers New England Division investigated solutions to the problem with 5 Steering Committees over 4 years ($2.6 million). The Recommended Regional Project includes a Floodgate structure at the mouth of the Saugus River with nine (9) gated openings 500 feet wide, designed to provide safe passage for navigation and the natural tide levels and flushing in the 1,650 acre tidal Estuary landward of the gates. The Estuary would be purchased and managed to protect its flood water storage a
With 2.5 feet of sea level rise from 1980 to 2070, the SPN floodplain would increase from 5,000 buildings to about 6,000 buildings that would be protected by the project. The increase is attributed to both an estimated growth in development of about 4%, and an increase in the SPN floodplain by 2070 since the 1980 period of about 2.5 feet. For Lynn the estimated 1980 floodplain with 1200 buildings would increase by about 50 buildings in growth plus 150 in raising the SPN floodplain due to sea level rise fo