A Storm Surge Barrier could protect New York City and New Jersey northern shorelines from future Superstorms, much like present-day storm battiers protect London, Holland, and Leningrad. Built along six mile stretch between Except for one shipping channel, the water between Breezy Point, New York and Sandy Hook New Jersey is 15 feet deep, at most and alreadfy has enough surrouinding sand, supplied by mother nature.

—The barrier would protect not just the rich residents of southern Manhattan, but also millions of not-rich people living everywhere else.

—It would enable the construction of a mostly above ground freight rail that could transport goods to a metro area that mostly relies on deliveries by tractor-trailer.

—It could Include a highway that would drive tourism dollars toward southern Long Island and the Jersey Shore.

—The new barrier island could Include include private investment of hotel boutique properties.

—It could save the government billions in relief help and —save property owners billions more in insurance relief. To learn more about storm barrier please Click Here to listen to NPR's Steve Inskeep speak with Malcolm Bowman, head of the Storm Surge Research Group at Stony Brook University about flooding from Sandy, and the possibility of creating storm barriers around New York. Malcolm Bowman is a physical oceanographer and a registered professional engineer with more than 50 years of experience in coastal marine science, ocean and water quality modeling, storm surge science and the interactions of the physical environment with marine ecosystems.