One week later, the sheet metal barrier is starting to take shape. When completed, DelDOT leaders said the roughly $800,000 project will use roughly 700 linear feet of metal.

Today, water barriers are part of a system that cordons 70% of that island nation’s coastline. By 2020, illegal immigration had fallen to pre-crisis levels in Singapore.

Around 500 feet of AquaFence wraps around lift station 85 at the old Albert Whitted Water Reclamation Facility.