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  • FACT SHEET-Inspection of Completed Works, NY

    DESCRIPTION:  The Inspection of Completed Works (ICW) Program is an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Program that provides for Corps of Engineers inspections of Flood Risk Management Projects (FRMP) and Coastal Storm Risk Management Projects (CSRM) that have been constructed by the Federal Government. The projects in New York have been turned over

  • FACT SHEET - Inspection of Completed Works, NJ

    DESCRIPTION:  The Inspection of Completed Works (ICW) Program is an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Program that provides for Corps of Engineers inspections of Flood Risk Management Projects (FRMPs) and Coastal Storm Risk Management Projects (CSRMs) that have been constructed by the Federal Government. The projects have been turned over to the

  • FACT SHEET-Inspection of Completed Works, Mass. and Conn.

    DESCRIPTION:  The Inspection of Completed Works (ICW) Program is an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Program that provides for Corps of Engineers inspections of Flood Risk Management Projects (FRMPs) that have been constructed by the Federal Government. The projects in western Massachusetts and Connecticut have been turned over to the local public

  • 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.

  • 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-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 has increased the potential for storm damage. Damaging storms have occurred in 1938, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1984, 1991, 1992 and 2012. In October 2012, Super Storm Sandy was credited with causing over $250 million dollars of damage. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: NY-04

  • FACT SHEET-Lake Montauk Harbor Navigation Improvement Project, NY

  • 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 - Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay, Union Beach, NJ

    DESCRIPTION: The Borough of Union Beach, New Jersey, the project area is located in the northern portion of Monmouth County, New Jersey. It occupies an approximate 1.8 square mile area of land along the coast of Raritan Bay.  The area is located in low elevation regions with numerous small creeks providing drainage.  Low-lying residential and