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Federal funding for resiliency upgrades in city infrastructure

1:52:12

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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about how DOT will use federal funding to implement resiliency upgrades within the city's infrastructure. DOT officials explain their approach to incorporating resiliency components in various projects.

Many street reconstruction projects include resiliency components
Porous pavement is used for stormwater management, which fits into the resiliency portion
DOT has received funding for planning grants, such as the Snake Road project
Both implementation and planning grants have been secured for resiliency-related projects

Selvena Brooks-Powers

1:52:12

And how will DOT utilize federal funding to implement resiliency upgrades within the city's infrastructure?

Paul Ochoa

1:52:22

Yeah.

1:52:22

The I mean, just in similar ways, Queens Boulevard, one of the reasons what I, it also received federal funding is because there are resiliency components to a lot of our, street reconstruction projects.

1:52:35

We mentioned porous pavement.

1:52:37

I know we were talking earlier about porous pavement, as a cooling effect, but we we've really used porous pavement as for stormwater management, and that and that fits squarely into the resiliency portion.

1:52:49

We've also received funding for planning grants.

1:52:52

Snake Road is is a good example of a planning grant that we've received.

1:52:57

It is not quite ready for a capital or implementation grant, what what they're called, but they are very important for us to really study what a potential solution or what a potential, reconstruction or capital project could be in the future.

1:53:09

So we've actually received both types of grants, from federal government.

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