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  • FACT SHEET - Montauk Point, NY Study Area, and Historic Lighthouse

    The Montauk Point study area, including the historic lighthouse on a bluff at the eastern end of the southern fork of Long Island in the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY

  • FACT SHEET-Brown's Creek, NY

    DESCRIPTION: The project provides for a channel 6 feet deep to 250 feet inshore of the jetties; 4 feet deep to the head of navigation, 100 feet wide and approximately 1 mile long.  Two stone jetties are at the entrance, the east jetty is 448 feet long and the west jetty is 700 feet long.AUTHORIZATION: The federal navigation project for Browns Creek

  • FACT SHEET-Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet (Long Beach) NY

    DESCRIPTION: The project area is located on the south shore of Long Island, consisting of approximately 9 miles of oceanfront from Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet. A historical low height and narrow width of the beach front increased the area’s potential for storm damage. Damaging storms occurred in 1938, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1984, 1991, 1992 and 2012. In October 2012, Super Storm Sandy caused over $250 million in damages.

  • FACT SHEET - Orchard Beach, NY

    DESCRIPTION: Orchard Beach is located in Pelham Bay Park on the northeast shore of the Borough of the Bronx, New York, at the western end of Long Island Sound. Orchard Beach is an artificial beach constructed by the City of New York between 1935 and 1937.  The beach is crescent-shaped, approximately 400 feet wide and one mile long, and constructed

  • FACT SHEET - South Shore of Staten Island, N.Y.

    AUTHORIZATION: A Feasibility Study was authorized by U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Public Works and Transportation, adopted May 13, 1993. The purpose of the study was to identify possible risk management solutions for hurricane and storm damages in the area, and to determine whether Federal participation was warranted in constructing shore protection measures. Per funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Public Law 113-2 (the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013) the Feasibility Study was completed and approved in 2016. Public Law 113-2 also provided authorization and Federal funding necessary to initiate project construction. The Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA 2022) also provided further authorization for the project, including updated project cost and updated cost-sharing provisions.

  • FACT SHEET - Hudson Raritan Estuary (HRE) - Harlem River

    The Harlem River is a tidal strait that flows between the Hudson River and the East River separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the New York mainland. This 9-mile tidal strait was once a complex system of tributaries, wetlands, and meandering shorelines. Ultimately, rapid industrialization and urbanization resulted in widespread loss

  • FACT SHEET - Passaic River NJ Basin Flood Management (Floodway Buy-out)

    DESCRIPTION: Flooding has long been a problem in the Passaic River Basin.  Since colonial times, floods have claimed lives and damaged property.  The most severe flood, the "flood of record," occurred in 1903, and more recent floods in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, two in 1975, 1984, 1992, 1999, 2001, and 2005 were sufficiently devastating to warrant

  • FACT SHEET - New York City Watershed

    DESCRIPTION: The water supply for the City of New York is composed of three watershed systems.  Together, these systems provide water for 8 million residents in New York City, as well as 1 million residents north of the City.  The Catskill and Delaware systems lie west of the Hudson River, covering an area of approximately 2000 square miles.  The

  • FACT SHEET-Lower Saddle River, NJ

    Flood Risk Reduction Feasibility Study

  • FACT SHEET - Regulatory Request System Permit Portal

    The Regulatory Program has introduced a NEW national online application portal and management platform called the Regulatory Request System (RRS) to modernize its permitting process and meet user expectations by providing a straightforward transparent process for the submittal of permit requests.