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New York City's implementation of nature-based solutions
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Council Member Gennaro highlights New York City's successful implementation of nature-based solutions to address various environmental challenges. He emphasizes the city's use of green infrastructure and other nature-based approaches to manage stormwater, reduce flooding, and increase resilience to heat and storm surges.
- NYC has used nature-based programs to address local flooding in Staten Island, Queens, and The Bronx
- Green infrastructure assets like rain gardens and bioswales manage nearly 2 billion gallons of stormwater annually
- The city has implemented projects like living breakwaters and coastal wetlands restoration to increase resilience to storm surges
James F. Gennaro
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In New York City, we've used this nature based we, meaning, you know, DEP, us, whatever.
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We've used a nature based program.
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We've used this nature based paradigm to successfully address local flooding conditions in Staten Island, Queens, and The Bronx and increase our resiliency to to to heat by by expanding local tree cover, which has been particularly important in high heat vulnerability neighborhoods.
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We've used green infrastructure assets like rain gardens and bioswales to manage nearly 2,000,000,000 gallons of storm water annually, reducing combined sewer overflows, combined sew combined sewage overflow events by, wait for it, nearly 800,000,000 gallons a year.
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And we've used green infrastructure assets to increase resiliency to storm surge storm surge through efforts like having living breakwaters projects to have the Living Breakwaters project and coastal wetlands restoration work to name a few.
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But every year climate change climate change exacerbates disordered weather patterns reminding us that there is much more work yet to be done.