Prabilski says storm surge barriers need more Corps study
Prabilski says the Corps has not advanced storm surge barrier analysis beyond reports and that the city needs Corps expertise to study, build, and operate them. Gennaro notes the barriers are on a map but not on the map as active projects.
Yes, no.
The storm surge barriers that the Army Corps proposed as part of HATS are significant, right, across Jamaica Bay.
They're significant pieces of infrastructure.
The Corps is not actively studying them, just to be clear.
They're not moving forward on analyzing that.
I would say...
But they did advance them as projects, right?
They have in other places.
In the PAX study and in the original Jamaica Bay study, they proposed them at the mouth of Jamaica Bay as a means to protect against storm surge barriers.
Storm surge.
But they have not advanced the study any further than that.
I believe right now the city does need the Corps and their expertise in that significant type of study of storm surge barriers to do that.
I believe within the city, yes, there is a lot of experts that could very much study that.
But right now the Corps is not advancing it, and we really need their expertise on what it means for storm surge barrier, both to develop and build and to operate them.
Okay, so they're not really on the map right now, other than...
In a report.
What's that?
Other than in a report, they're on a map.
Right.
And they were thought of as a good idea by the Corps, but, you know, they...
I guess they view the world through available resources and they make decisions.
They need a lot more study, the barriers, yeah.
Okay.