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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.