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Interim Deployable Flood Protection

The City is constructing coastal flood protection infrastructure. Crews will install the temporary, or deployable, components of these projects when a neighborhood becomes at risk of flooding. The "deployables" are then removed after the flood risk subsides.

Boston is vulnerable to coastal flooding. The City is designing and building large-scale, permanent infrastructure to prevent this from happening. Before permanent infrastructure is constructed, or in areas where it is less practical, deployable barriers are used instead.

The City's Interim Deployable Flood Protection project combines floodwalls or other vertical elements with deployable barriers to prevent flooding. Gaps in the flood infrastructure will remain open, except during extraordinary coastal flooding scenarios, minimizing disruption to existing activities and movement patterns. Deployable barriers typically have a shorter construction duration and are less complicated to design than more permanent, larger-scale coastal resilience infrastructure.

After a larger-scale solution is constructed to protect an area, interim deployable infrastructure may no longer be needed and may be used at another location.

Interim Deployable Flood Protection Projects

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