Ten environmental organizations say the Army Corps of Engineers’ $52 billion proposal to protect New York City with the largest system of waterfront barriers in the region could damage waterways and leave the Bronx unprotected.
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The collective includes the Bronx River Alliance, Coney Island Beautification Project, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Guardians of Flushing Bay, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Hutchinson River Restoration Project, Newtown Creek Alliance, Save the Sound, Coalition for Wetlands and Woodlands, and NY/NJ Baykeeper.
“Ultimately, we oppose Alternative 3B because of the Corps’ single-threat approach to tackling a multifaceted flooding issue in a highly complex urban environment,” said Rebecca Pryor, a spokesperson for Urban Tributaries and the executive director of the Guardians of Flushing Bay. “We fully 100% believe that there needs to be a solution to protect people, community and ecology from here on out, but that solution needs to be in close coordination with local plans and local agencies.
Once the period for public feedback closes, the Army Corps will compile and rank all of the comments it receives in order of importance, and then convene an Agency Decision Milestone meeting in June. There, it will use the comments from the public, community groups and other stakeholders, as well as government agencies, to decide whether to advance Alternative 3B or to adopt a different strategy.
“It doesn’t paint a good picture for the future, if we don’t do anything, but that is the default decision, if we don’t come together,” said Wisemiller. “You are looking in the hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, and that’s only over the next 50 years. And that number will just go up beyond then, with further sea level rise. So something needs to be done.
“It’s going to lead to communities who are being sacrificed to future storms,” said Pryor, about the uneven dispersal of barriers proposed for the region. “I think a question we are trying to ask is: Does anything actually have to be sacrificed?”
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