Prabilski details RISE and comprehensive coastal plan timeline

And we are getting started on a lot of those pieces.

So the visioning, as you mentioned, so a vision for our coast.

The city has spent the last several years.

If I could just jump in here for a second, because in the testimony, it says that, because you're talking about the grand vision, the Bureau is working toward a comprehensive vision.

I assume that's going to be a report or some kind of deliverable.

Is that right?

Right.

So we've got the first step of that underway right now.

It's called Resilient Infrastructure for Shoreline Edges.

We love an acronym, RISE.

And so we're working on that, and that'll be done by the end of this year.

And that'll be the building blocks of then a comprehensive coastal resilience plan that we, yes, will be a report.

But the goal is that the report is a vision for the coast.

Yeah, I meant a plan.

Yeah, a plan, a vision that then gets updated over time.

based on changing science and changing conditions.

So we need to embark on that with the neighbors and the folks that live within those coastal communities most directly, but of course also with our legislators, with our state and federal partners, and with all of the city agencies.

So to date...

Yet the projects that are happening, the things that are in planning, in design, and in construction, we coordinate across all of those with our partners.

So, yes, DDC is building a lot of infrastructure.

They have coordinated with all the agencies during design and continue to with DEP.

As the operational side, our Bureau of Wastewater Treatment and our BWSO, Water and Sewer Operations, and now also with BCR, who will own and maintain the coastal flood defense pieces that they're building.

And then there are projects in construction in Red Hook as well.

So similarly, that's just started in construction.

So BCR is more forefront in troubleshooting in the field on those pieces of coastal defense that they're building.

And then you've got the projects that are...

That are in design but not far along in design that the Army Corps is working on, both in Staten Island and in Rockaways.

And so we're influencing the design and coordinating for the city's vision for those projects.

So those are the pieces that I work on, on the pieces that are in the ground.

But what we don't have is a set of a bunch of projects in the pipeline to react perhaps to the next storm or to determine where we're going to start building more infrastructure.

And that's what the comprehensive visioning plan is really, really critical for.