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Comprehensive stormwater resilience efforts and timeline
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Commissioner Aggarwala outlines the city's comprehensive approach to stormwater resilience, highlighting the scale of the challenge and ongoing efforts.
- 86 locations around the city identified as needing investment for climate change-related rainfall
- Estimated $30 billion total cost for citywide stormwater resilience
- Current timeline of approximately 30 years to complete all necessary work
- Focus on both long-term infrastructure and short-term mitigation strategies
- Mention of partnerships for catch basin cleaning and new designs for manhole and catch basin covers
Rohit Aggarwala
2:46:02
Yeah.
2:46:03
Look.
2:46:03
And and I I said that is totally fair.
2:46:07
And there there's always there's always more that we can do.
2:46:11
I I I and and your point about the short term, and again, when it comes to the long term, I'm constantly gonna go back to the fact that we are working on a comprehensive effort towards storm water resilience.
2:46:26
There are 86 locations around the city that are going to need investment to deal with the rain that climate change is bringing us.
2:46:35
And so I guess one of the things that that we deal with is everybody thinks their neighborhood isn't getting enough because the whole city isn't getting enough.
2:46:44
And it's gonna take us, know, as Narissa mentioned, have $10,000,000,000.
2:46:50
Our estimate is that this is a $30,000,000,000 effort.
2:46:54
At that run rate, it's a thirty year timeline, right, to get the storm water resilience that we already know we need.
2:47:03
I think one of a lot of the wisdom that's in your point and also is reflected in in your comment on the protecting your home document is that while we do the long term stuff, we've been really focused also on how can we do the shorter term stuff.
2:47:18
And I think some of the the nearest term impacts, it's why we were enthusiastic to work with you on the partnership around catch face and cleaning.
2:47:25
That's the obvious, the easiest, cheapest, whatever.
2:47:28
You know, we we know there are some locations that they get clogged, even more so they get matted over.
2:47:33
And that's the thing that that you have done great work on personally and individuals can do.
2:47:39
And one of the near term things that we are working on, Antasos, maybe you have the numbers at hand, is the new designs that we've got for slotted manhole covers and for the new catch basin covers that help reduce that matting.
2:47:55
And I think that's one of the highest return on investment investments we can make.
2:47:59
We do have some of that planned and I'm and Tassos I think has found found the numbers.
2:48:05
So maybe you could say some about the catch basin modernization program.