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Overview of New York City's green infrastructure program
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Licata provides an overview of New York City's green infrastructure program, highlighting its benefits, scale, and recent developments. She emphasizes how green infrastructure complements traditional gray infrastructure in managing stormwater.
- Green infrastructure absorbs water, greens neighborhoods, improves air quality, creates cooling effects, and provides habitat for pollinators
- NYC's green infrastructure program is the largest of its kind in the nation, with over 16,000 assets and $1.4 billion committed
- In 2024, 2,500 new green infrastructure assets were added, including rain gardens and infiltration basins
Angela Licata
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Green infrastructure absorbs water into the ground in areas with good soil.
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It can also green neighborhoods, improve air quality, create cooling, improve aesthetics, and provide habitat for pollinators.
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A few years ago, we started to identify opportunities where we could site and design green infrastructure to go above and beyond the CSO reduction that's combined sewer overflow reduction, is what the program principally was charged with doing in its origin.
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You'll find these strategies in large underutilized medians, and you will also see the Cloud Risk Management program that we'll discuss below coming soon.
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With over 16,000 green infrastructure assets constructed and over
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I'm starting with the paragraph with over
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16,000
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And over 1,400,000,000.0 committed, the New York City green infrastructure program is now the largest of its kind in the nation and continues to grow.
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In 2024 alone, we added 2,500 green infrastructure assets in our city through a combination of rain gardens and infiltration basins in our sidewalks, as well as new green infrastructure on public and private lots.
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In keeping with the topic of the hearing today, I would like to tell you a little bit about how DEP uses nature based solutions and tools and discuss the implementation challenges.
James F. Gennaro
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I kinda lost my place.
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I think I have a different version of the
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Okay.
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Hang on.
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Hang on.
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I'm
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Got it.
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Got it.
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Thank you.
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green infrastructure assets.