In 2003, a consortium of engineering and construction firms was formed to build a series of barriers at the entrance to the lagoon to protect the city. MOSE, as it is called (the acronym, which ...

Venice’s MOSE flood barriers, in use since October 2020, ... “The lagoon is closed now. The protection is more than sufficient, the barriers are what they are.

Even modest sea level rise could do damage to the Venice Lagoon. Rising seas could wash away the sediments that nourish the wetlands, according to Giovanni Seminara, a professor of engineering at ...

It’s about time: Last week, the $6.6-billion MOSE project, started in 2003 (but envisioned all the way back in the ‘80s) to protect Venice from flooding, successfully raised its gates for the ...

In 2003, Italy began building a massive flood barrier designed to isolate the Venetian Lagoon, the enclosed bay where Venice is located. The project, known as Mose, is one of the largest civil ...

MOSE has now been built to protect Venice from tides as high as 3 meters or almost 10 feet (in 2020 there was an exceptionally high tide event of 2.04 meters or 6 feet, 8 inches).

Venice just successfully tested its ambitious $7 billion flood-protection project for the first time. The Moses system for defense against high water is being constructed at the city’s lagoon ...