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  • FACT SHEET - Atlantic Coast of New York - South Shore of Long Island

    DESCRIPTION: The south shore of Long Island includes portions of New York City and Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The shoreline includes a diversity of development, from urbanized areas to beaches, parklands, and roadways as well as many inlets, some of which are used for small boat navigation. It is subject to substantial overwash and erosion during

  • FACT SHEET-Peckman River Basin, NJ

    The Peckman River Basin is in Essex and Passaic Counties, NJ. A tributary to the Passaic River, the Peckman River originates in West Orange and flows northeaster through Verona, Cedar Grove, Little Falls, and Woodland Park to its confluence with the Passaic River in West Paterson.

  • 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-Green Brook Sub Basin, NJ

    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 68 square miles composed primarily of suburban, commercial, and industrialized areas. For the majority of the project area, the most

  • FACT SHEET - Silver Jackets, New Jersey

    Silver Jackets teams are state-led interagency groups established in nearly all states across the country bring together multiple state, federal, and sometimes tribal and local agencies to learn from one another and apply their knowledge to reduce the risk of flooding and other natural disasters in the United States and enhance response and

  • FACT SHEET - Silver Jackets, Vermont

    Provides interagency approach to sharing and combining resources, funding, programs and technical expertise.

  • FACT SHEET-Hudson River, New York Operations & Routine Maintenance of Troy Lock & Dam

    DESCRIPTION: Routine operation and maintenance of the Troy Lock and Dam project.

  • FACT SHEET-Rondout Harbor, New York

    DESCRIPTION: Repairs to the deteriorated portions of the cribbing pilling system along the entire length of the branch dike and at the eastern end of the south dike.

  • FACT SHEET-Gordons Landing, VT

    DESCRIPTION:  A 654-foot-long rock breakwater, disconnected from the shoreline and extending northwest out to the minus 16-foot contour of Lake Champlain. The 130-year-old breakwater protects the eastern terminus of the Cumberland Head-Grand Isle Ferry Route from wind and wave action and ice floes.AUTHORIZATION:  Adapted in the Rivers and Harbors

  • FACT SHEET-Narrows of Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont

    DESCRIPTION: The installation and maintenance of fender booms at Putts Rock, Putts Leap, Narrows near Dresden, Pulpit Point, and Cedar Mountain.  Length – about 13.5 miles. The existing project is about 77% complete, with a channel 12 feet deep at LLL and least width of 150 feet having been excavated throughout the entire length of the improvement,