CHARLESTON — City Council approved nearly $2.5 million to continue designing and engineering the battery extension, a seawall meant to protect Charleston’s peninsula from rising seas and increasingly powerful hurricanes.

At a Sept. 9 meeting, council also authorized the design agreement between the city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the city’s federal partner on the project that is also footing most of the estimated $1.3 billion bill. This design agreement releases about $13 million in federal funding toward the project.

Charleston’s share of the price tag totals about $455 million, Mayor William Cogswell said during an interview after he returned from a trip to Washington D.C. where he and other city officials met with the head of the Army Corps to discuss the new direction f

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