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  • FACT SHEET - Spring Creek (North) Park Ecosystem Restoration Project, Queens, NY

    DESCRIPTION: The Spring Creek North project area is a 47-acre portion of Spring Creek Park located adjacent to the banks of Spring Creek and Ralph’s Creek, located in northern Jamaica Bay counties of Kings and Queens. The proposed ecosystem restoration project seeks to improve the habitat in Spring Creek Park and Jamaica Bay. The construction,

  • FACT SHEET - Atlantic Coast of New York City, East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet (Rockaway Beach) and Jamaica Bay, NY

    The project study area includes the Rockaway Peninsula and the communities surrounding Jamaica Bay in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn in New York City.

  • FACT SHEET- Raritan and Sandy Hook Bay - Port Monmouth, NJ

    DESCRIPTION: The project involves the construction of about 7,070 feet of levees, 3,585 feet of floodwalls, 2,640 feet of dune, and beach renourishment at 10-year intervals along the Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay in Port Monmouth Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.  The project provides protection to low-lying residential and

  • 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 -- Fire Island to Montauk Point, NY

    Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project. Hurricane protection and beach erosion control along 5 reaches between Fire Island Inlet and Montauk Point, New York.

  • FACT SHEET - Rockaway Inlet to Norton Point (Coney Island), NY

    Shore Protection Project. Located on the south shore of Long Island in the Borough of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.

  • New York and New Jersey Harbor Anchorages Project

    DESCRIPTION (PROJECT AREA AND PURPOSE): Currently, existing federal anchorages in the New York and New Jersey Harbor are insufficient in meeting the variety of functions (e.g., security and U.S. Coast Guard inspections, lightering, bunkering/refueling, waiting areas, and emergency “bailout” areas) they are used for as part of normal harbor operations, which reduces vessel safety and cargo transportation efficiency.

  • FACT SHEET - New York and New Jersey Harbor Deepening and Channel Improvements Preconstruction, Engineering and Design

    DESCRIPTION: The Port of New York and New Jersey (PONYNJ) is a conduit of global commerce and a major generator of jobs and economic activity in the region. The Port is the largest port on the East Coast of North America, the second largest in the nation, and one of the most productive high-volume port operations globally. The federal navigation channel system includes various terminals and associated facilities within PONJNY. The Port’s catchment area that lies within 260 miles of Newark Bay and includes all or part of 17 states. Getting goods into the hands of the consumers through an efficient and reliable transportation network is the cornerstone of the Port’s competitive edge with global markets.

  • FACT SHEET - Validation Study and GRR (Green Brook NJ Sub-Basin)

    DESCRIPTION: The Green Brook Sub Basin is located within the Raritan River Basin in north-central New Jersey in the counties of Middlesex, Somerset and Union. It encompasses 13 municipalities and drains approximately 65 square miles of primarily urban and industrialized area. For the majority of the project area, the most damaging floods of record

  • FACT SHEET - Maywood, NJ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)

    Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP).