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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Flood Engineering the Streets

Door Dams
San Marco.  The glass dams minimize the visual disruption.  For small floods, the low metal dam allows the walkway to go over the door dam.


187 cm is the height of the last "bad" high water in 2019.  This door has no door dams, but  Mose might mean this street is high enough.



Elevated walk ways

Places to sit or enjoy street food are rare in Venice.  Prepositioned elevated walkways have uses even during low water.


And the street artist and his god can also take advantage.

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