The Anacostia River runs along Washington Navy Yard. (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)
The Navy is considering erecting a 14-foot flood wall around the Washington Navy Yard to protect the historic complex along the Anacostia River from rising sea levels, internal Department of Defense documents show.
|$20 million price tag
Military engineers proposed the wall in a study, obtained by Bloomberg News through a public-records request, that describes a structure as long as 1.5 miles, to protect three dozen buildings at a cost of as much as $20 million. It's the latest example of a federal agency getting ready for climate change, despite the Trump administration's public dismissal of the threat.
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