PIERMONT WATERFRONT RESILIENCE TASK FORCE
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PIERMONT
WATERFRONT RESILIENCE
TASK FORCE
Convened by the Villages
Piermont and Catskill
With Support, Technical Assistance and
Partnership from:
‣ NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation Hudson River Estuary
Program
‣ New England Interstate Water
Pollution Control Commission
‣ Scenic Hudson
‣ Consensus Building Institute
‣ Lincoln Institute WATERFRONT RESILIENCE TASK FORCE
Organizers, Project Team
1. Initiate a community-driven process to better
understand local risks tied to sea level rise
and tidal river flooding
2. Identify and prioritize strategies for making
Catskill more resilient
3. Generate a locally specific, broadly
understood and supported Resilience
Roadmap that:
• makes people & property safer
• ensures waterfront vitality
• conserves coastal natural resources
WATERFRONT RESILIENCE TASK FORCE
GOALS
• What can be done now, and how it will help residents and businesses SOLUTIONS • What the communities can do to be more resilient in the future
e’s needs and vision and to tap into different skills and local Jeffrey Anzevino - Director of Land Use Advocacy
Steve Rosenberg - Senior Vice President
e, with the intention that the work of the PWRTF would Sacha Spector - Director of Conservation Science
e sensibilities and priorities of the community fairly and Nava Tabak - Conservation Scientist
y. Mark Wildonger - Senior Planner
d Task Force members Consensus Building Institute - Facilitation and Project Management
Bennet Brooks - Senior Mediator
s*
in*
Task Force members
LWRP Update Committee
Architecture Student
NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program - Science and Planning
Kristin Marcell - Climate Program Coordinator
avanaugh Piermont Fire Chief
Libby Murphy - Climate Outreach Specialist
eciani* Village Board
er* Additional members of
snard* Piermont Historical Society
Resident
Catalysis Adaptation Partners - Benefit-Cost Economic Analysis
Jonathan Lockman - Vice President of Environmental Planning
ob* LWRP Update Committee
obs* the public
erciyan
LWRP Update Committee
Business Owner
Killop* LWRP Update Committee
erberg* Village Board, LWRP Update Committee
aus*
Federal, State, and
denOever*
Village Chamber of Commerce
Pastor, Reformed Church
lch*
ght* County Agencies and
Village Grant Administrator
Resident
NGOs
s attendance at 3 or more Task Force meetings
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COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PROCESS
Recommendations prioritized by the Task Force:
1 Improve emergency communications
2 Develop a comprehensive emergency management
plan (CEMP)
3 Work with local utilities to improve resilience
7 Establish a permanent flooding and storm resilience
committee
Incorporate the findings/recommendations of the
10 PWRTF into the new Local Waterfront Revitalization
Program (LWRP)
16 Research the financing options for supporting flooding
adaptation, mitigation, and protection measures
Recommenda)ons
priori)zed
by
the
Task
Force:
10 Incorporate
the
findings/recommenda5ons
of
the
PWRTF
into
the
new
Local
Waterfront
Revitaliza5on
Program
(LWRP)
‣Revise
local
code
to:
•promote
the
use
of
green
shoreline
infrastructure
(nature-‐based
solu5ons)
‣Promote
the
long-‐term
persistence
of
the
Piermont
Marsh
as
a
natural
storm
buffer
‣Encourage
the
use
of
natural
buffers
and
green
shoreline
infrastructure
to
reduce
flood
risk
and
erosion
and
conserve
natural
resource
func5ons
ADAPTATION NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS
ADAPTATION NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS
Piermont Marshway
COAST adaptation #3
Goal: To reduce people & assets in risk areas,
Piermont Ave- elevate
Esplanades protect some areas, and create new green
infrastructure in village
Bridges (one driving and one walking)
Removeable floodwall
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X
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X
Y
X
Y
X
Buyouts- 2020s
Buyouts- 2050s
Marsh expansion
Elevate
Floodproof
Adaptation Elements
Esplanades
New mixed use
development area
• roads in black raised now to 6.75ft (MHHW +2 ft
freeboard + 29inches SLR) and to 10.3 ft in 2050
(MHHW +2ft freeboard+ 72inches SLR)
• All properties in light purple elevated now to
ABFE (2014) + 2 ft freeboard + 29inchesSLR
• All properties in purple wet flood-proofed on first
floors
• Removable floodwall installed along dotted black
line - begins at grade and extends to 20’NAVD
(MSL+10ftABFE +72”SLR + 2ft freeboard)
• New bridges installed now
• Buyout homes in tan in 2020
• Buyout homes in pale green in 2050
• Construct esplanades in 2050Piermont Marshway
Piermont Ave Fly Wheel Park W
Esplanade Esplanade
roadway elevated roadway elevated
to MHHW +2ft to MHHW +2ft
Flood- freeboard + 3ft for freeboard + 3ft for
seawall
proofed or sea level rise sea level rise New
& footing for
elevated Construction
removable flood
structure
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