Coast 2050
Was mentioned in a paper I linked to a couple of times already.
I'm noticing as I look at original project papers from the late 1990s and just after 2000, that recent news stories on these same projects have had a tendency to "shave" the prices and lead times from the original estimates. In my paper, Coast 2050 was a thirty-year project. I suppose you could call that "a decade or more."
It's hard to say how much of this work could have been completed by today had Coast 2050 become a reality. Certainly, the delta wetlands and barrier islands would not have rebounded substantially yet. But undoubtedly progress would have been made that would have spared someone's life, someone's home, some jazz club or gumbo joint, some city district, some part of the region's unique culture that the entire country revels in.
I'm sorry, but this is a flat-ass lie. The feasibility study alone on Coast2050 was pegged at ten years.
The Coast2050 website is here, but is so clogged or otherwise bogged down that I can only reach it through Google caches.