Hurricane Barrier walls
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for those that follow me they will know one thing I am fascinated by since I moved here to New Bedford is the Hurricane Barrier walls and the walk ways they have added on top of them, the Harbor Walk and Cove walk, which I have walked on many times.
For this post that is what I will focus on some shots of the Hurricane barrier walls
Starting with this shot Looking at one end of the wall you may be able to make out a fence on the top of the wall which is part of the Harbor Walk walking trail
Sony A7iv 17mm F11 1/8 Sec ISO 100
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The Harbor walk was Opened in 2015, and is 3,880 feet long and tops New Bedford’s hurricane barrier on the east side of the city’s southern peninsula.
The other walk is the cove walk which opened in 2017 and is 5,500 feet long, and is lit at night making walking there anytime quite pleasant.
The Hurricane barriers themselves are a lot older construction started in 1962 and were dedicated in 1966, from what I understand the hurricane barrier remains the largest manmade structure on the east coast of the United States and provides security for industries, the fishing fleet, and hundreds of homes in residential neighborhoods
It cost $1,000 a foot, is long enough to span the 3.5 mile width of New Bedford, is as high (and wider ) than The Great Wall of China, and has enough steel in it to build a Navy destroyer.
Its two huge steel navigational-sector gates weigh 400 tons apiece-each 35 tons heavier than the biggest locomotive ever built-and each as tall as a six-story house. When the gates swing shut at the touch of a button to lock out devastating storm tides, they create a pond inside the barrier which could cover 6,500 acres of land with a foot of water. They keep out much more of course.
At the other end of the Harbor walk you can look over as it heads out to Meet the wall that comes from the Fairhaven side.
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And you can walk along the side of the wall on this path which takes one out to Palmers Island
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and Since i mentioned the walking path I had to include on shot on it
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and a Similar shot to the first one on a different day
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And that’s all folks
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