Sentences with phrase «planned seawall»

FEMA sets insurance premiums based on flood risk, and with the planned seawall will come premium reductions.

Not exact matches

The City had plans to build a protective seawall around the island but deferred them in the belief that what had always been, would always be.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The snail's pace of government has been sped up to a slow crawl, thanks to Sen. Charles Schumer, who advocated for the planned East Shore seawall project to skip a few unnecessary bureaucratic steps.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - As plans progress for a buried seawall to protect the East Shore from storm surges, $ 2 million in federal funds for Hurricane Sandy relief will kickstart the design phase of the project.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, as well as a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needs to speed up its approval process so a planned East Shore seawall can be constructed sooner to prevent future storms from devastating Staten Island again, Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - After years of planning, the money is finally flowing in for a buried seawall project along the East Shore of Staten Island to protect against future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While the proposed East Shore seawall that will run from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach includes a promenade component, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced his plans to include a full - fledged promenade along the length of the seawall that he expects will be a tourist destination.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

Issues like pushing forward the planned East Shore seawall, fixing a broken flood insurance system and getting funds to complete the Staten Island Expressway's HOV appeal to her.

Citing the threat posed by climate change, Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday announced plans for a new seawall and promenade along Staten Island's southern coast.

Those issues included seeing through the planned East Shore seawall, fixing a broken flood insurance system and securing funding to complete the Staten Island Expressway's HOV.

Gov. Cuomo rolled out a plan to grant Staten Island $ 151 million in order to build a seawall and a promenade along its southern coast.

Let us say that you are planning an excursion in the mountains, or a run up to Quarry Rock, and you are still training on the seawall, it would be time to rethink your training methods.

ahh... didn't Louisiana plan to build an interlocking seawall to protect New Orleans from a hurricane's potential high seas only to have the construction blocked by the Sierra Club because those enviro - fools wanted to save some sea lettuce?

The Clean Power Plan's defenders treat it as if it were a seawall holding back a tide of environmental ills.

Sechelt Seawalls by the Seashore: Discrimination and City Planning, in Legal News for Local Governments, February 2005;

Kimmins and Cook say they plan to attract more agents to their office and leverage their spectacular location along the Vancouver seawall.