Long Term Flood Fighting Projects Along the East Coast - Part 1

Each year floods sweep through our country, taking lives, destroying property, shutting down businesses, harming the environment and causing millions of dollars in damages. One of the main causes of major flooding is storm surge, and a great example of the effects is Hurricane Sandy. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched the Rebuild by Design competition in the summer of 2013 to develop ideas to improve physical, ecological, economic and social resilience in regions affected by Superstorm Sandy. Let's take a look at some of those long term flood fighting projects that are currently underway.

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Meadowlands


On June 2, 2014, HUD announced that a design concept for the Meadowlands area of New Jersey near Little Ferry, Teterboro, Moonachie and Carlstadt was selected as a winner of the Rebuild by Design competition. To fund this project, HUD has allocated $150 million towards the design and construction of a solution that will reduce flooding risks and enhance resiliency in this area.

For more information on this project, visit: http://www.nj.gov/dep/floodhazard/rbd-meadowlands.htm

Hudson River



The Hudson River project was one of the competition's six winning concepts. It was developed with the goal of reducing frequent flooding due to storm surge, high tide and heavy rainfall. HUD awarded $230 million to the State of New Jersey for the project in the municipalities of Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City. The project's comprehensive approach to resilience consists of 4 integrated components:

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  1. Resist:  a combination of  hard infrastructure (such as bulkheads, floodwalls and seawalls) and soft landscaping features (such as berms and/or levees which could be used as parks) that act as barriers along the coast during exceptionally high tide and/or storm surge events;
  2. Delay: policy recommendations, guidelines and urban green infrastructure to slow stormwater runoff;
  3. Store: green and grey infrastructure improvements, such as bioretention basins, swales, and green roofs, that slow down and capture stormwater, and which will complement the efforts of the City of Hoboken’s existing Green Infrastructure Strategic Plan; and
  4. Discharge: enhancements to Hoboken’s existing stormwater management system, including the identification and upgrading of existing stormwater/sewer lines, outfalls and pumping stations.
For more information on this project, visit: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/floodhazard/rbd-hudsonriver.htm

Hunts Point 


Hunts Point Lifelines was one of six winning proposals, developed by a team of multi-disciplinary professionals who worked closely with local stakeholders over a number of months to develop a resiliency plan for Hunts Point. In addition to $20 million in HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding awarded to the City of New York based on the winning Hunts Point proposal, the City has allocated an additional $25 million to resiliency efforts in the peninsula, for a total of $45 million for the Hunts Point resiliency project.

For more information on this project, visit: http://www.nycedc.com/project/hunts-point-resiliency-implementation

If you live in an area that is currently working on a long term flood fighting project, give us a call at 800-337-0537. Our heavy duty construction barriers provide a re-usable alternative to sheet pile cofferdams, sandbag barriers, water barriers, single FIBC bags, super sacks and aqua dams. Get your fast, reusable Big Bags USA® construction barrier systems that save time and money today!

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