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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Resiliency efforts and projects
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The Department of Design and Construction outlines its growing role in the city's resiliency efforts, including specific projects and initiatives.
- DDC reported new resiliency data, including the installation of 15,693 square feet of porous pavement and 1,265 feet of coastal protection in the first four months of the fiscal year.
- Major projects include the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) and Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Coastal Resilience (BMCR) projects, creating a 3.22-mile-long flexible flood barrier.
- A new coastal resiliency project in Red Hook is set to begin, budgeted at $184 million, featuring flood walls, flip-up and sliding flood gates, and infrastructure improvements.
Magalie Desroches Austin
4:56:37
DDC plays a large role in the city's resiliency efforts and that continues to grow as the agencies we build for such as DEP, DOT and parks dedicate more of their budgets to resiliency.
4:56:51
In the recent PMMR, in order to account for this work, we reported new resiliency data.
4:56:58
In the first four months of the fiscal year, we installed 15,693 square feet of porous pavement and twelve sixty five feet of coastal protection.
4:57:10
Coastal protection at ESCR and BMCR on the Lower East Side is creating a 3.22 mile long flexible flood barrier while also enhancing recreational opportunities.
4:57:24
Last month, we demonstrated for the media the new flood gates at BMCR which rise up from the ground using electrical power.
4:57:33
We expect our coastal resiliency project to start in Red Hook in a few months.
4:57:38
That project is budgeted at a hundred and $84,000,000 and we will use a system of flood walls, flip up and sliding flood gates and sidewalk and roadway improvements.