Red Hook Integrated Flood Protection System Study
Protecting Brooklyn from Coastal Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise Impacts
The innovative engineering designs help avoid the need for human interventions during a coastal storm surge, leading to a sustainable flood project with minimal maintenance and operational costs.
This project will drastically reduce the losses and time it takes to recover from a coastal storm surge event.
New high-level storm sewers, tide gates at existing outfall, and drainage improvements along the waterside of these barriers will prevent intrusion of coastal storm surge into the protected side of the barrier.
- Owner
- New York City Economic Development Corporation
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
- Completed
- Ongoing
- Region
- Northeast
When Superstorm Sandy struck the Red Hook community, coastal storm surge flooded the low-lying areas, hitting the Brooklyn neighborhood disproportionately hard and causing unprecedented flooding levels. As part of New York City’s multilayered $20 billion resilience plan, the Red Hook Integrated Flood Protection System is a federally funded coastal protection initiative aimed at reducing flood risk due to coastal storms and sea level rise in the community.
We worked with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency (ORR) to conduct the study to evaluate existing and future flood risks, develop conceptual design alternatives, and ultimately produce a preferred alternative for an integrated flood protection system to reduce flood risk within Red Hook. Based on feedback from agency stakeholders and the community, our team developed a preferred conceptual solution that would reduce the flood risk within the community from a 10-year coastal storm surge and one foot of sea level rise.
10
year coastal storm risk reduced
1
sea level rise risk reduced
Awards
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2018 Platinum Award
ACEC-NY
