NY Times: New York is a city surrounded by water, from the open ocean to bays to rivers. But there is also an enormous trove of water hidden below its streets and high-rise buildings — hundreds of subterranean streams, creeks and springs that were buried long ago and all but forgotten as the city grew. Tibbetts […]
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Bloomberg: Thousands of acres of undersea reefs once protected the city’s shoreline. Now an army of volunteers is bringing the bivalves back, one shell at a time. A row of plastic bins sits in a gravel lot next to Brooklyn’s Domino Park promenade; each holds small pieces of New York City’s more climate-proof future. They’re full
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NYC’S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIGHT RISING SEASNYC’S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIGHT RISING SEAS Construction Equipment Guide: On the southern tip of Staten Island, New York City’s latest project to address climate change is now slowly rising from the sea. In September, the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery announced
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The City: A higher waterfront and a lower highway may be on tap for Lower Manhattan. The city has a new proposal for protecting the Financial District and Seaport from future flooding: extending the eastern edge of Manhattan’s tip by up to 188 feet — while raising the shoreline and possibly taking down the elevated FDR
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Longmont Ledger: Initial findings from Boulder County’s wide-reaching American Rescue Plan, or ARPA, funding survey were revealed in a public meeting of the county commissioners on Nov. 10. Boulder County Commissioners and outreach specialists brought the survey to communities throughout the county — particularly the Latinx and mountain communities — to determine how best to spend
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To protect local neighborhoods and restore native habitats, All Bay Collective is rethinking the shoreline around San Leandro Bay with the creation of Estuary Commons. Through the construction of ponds, landforms, and expanded streams, the communities of Deep East Oakland, Alameda, and San Leandro will not only be able to adapt to sea-level rise and
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The ouR-HOME sea level rise response projects are linked to the health and financial well-being of residents that have been traditionally shut out of opportunities to improve health and family wealth. Small lot housing, a community land trust, social impact bonds and community infrastructure combine to lower the cost of entry to home ownership. Green
State Route 37, a low-lying commute route that skirts the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, is both traffic-choked and increasingly flooded due to sea level rise. Sitting atop a precarious levee that confines an immense but compromised marsh complex, Dr. Fraser Shilling of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center has observed, “the highway has
The Bay is so many things to so many different people – it is a place of beauty, serenity, ecology, recreation, economy and identity, to name just a few. The Field Operations Team worked closely with the communities in the South Bay and Silicon Valley to shape a vibrant and living framework for adaptation in
