<div><p>CommonWealth Beacon reports the city is working with downtown and Seaport landlords to have them put up their temporary flood barriers on Boston's first Deployables Day to get building personnel used to using one of the cheaper technologies city planners hope to use to ward off rising sea levels and more severe storms - a week after a king tide did is now usual flooding of Long Wharf.</p><p>The training exercise comes as city planners are still working on more expensive, longer-term plans to protect Boston from flooding from both sea and, inland, from more intense storms, with options ranging from flood barriers to underground storage tanks to redesigning major parks to serve as impromptu basins to hold storm and seawater.</p><p>Developers of proposed projects near the water now also have to detail how they will protect their proposed buildings and nearby land from inundation.</p></div>

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Flood barriers will line waterfront streets in downtown Boston tomorrow, but not because of an imminent hurricane

CommonWealth Beacon reports the city is working with downtown and Seaport landlords to have them put up their temporary flood barriers on Boston's first Deployables Day to get building personnel used to using one of the cheaper technologies city planners hope to use to ward off rising sea levels and more severe storms - a week after a king tide did is now usual flooding of Long Wharf.