By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Goawnus Canal Storm Surge Barrier Study was presented to the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency. The report looks at the feasability of future studies and actions the City and the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Sample No. 2, Marked from 017 Erie Basin. Found: Numerous small worms resembling round worms, 0r Nematodes. Numerous diatoms, Oogonia, Conferva filaments, bits of wood, considerable plant epidermis. Ulothrix, Botryococcus braunii, Schizomeris...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
You've heard of watersheds, this project is about sewersheds. The sewer system impacts flooding in Red Hook both in terms of overflows coming up into the street from storm drains and backing up into buildings via their sewer lines. The...
Shortly after Sandy, PortSide identified the need for a flood evacuation plan for vehicles. Current evacuation plans focus on people, but where are all the vehicles supposed to go in a city where parking spaces can be hard to find? At the 2016 Red...
By Carolina Salguero, Special to Red Hook WaterStories Hurricane Sandy was a destructive example of Red Hook WaterStories. This section “resiliency: flood prep” is an effort to help Red Hook better prepare for future floods. For more about...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Hi, I’m PortSide’s ship cat, Chiclet. Listen up. I have experience with this resiliency thing, and my celebrity status can help get the word out. I was listed in Time Out Magazine’s top NYC mascots, you know. I am here to help PortSide...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The NYCHA public housing in Red Hook is the largest NYCHA development in Brooklyn, and the second largest in New York City. It is where the overwhelming majority of Red Hook residents live. The NYCHA footprint has many Red Hook WaterStories...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Get involved with the evolving Resilient Red Hook committee to help plan Red Hook resiliency and development. After hurricanes Irene and Sandy, New York State created the NY Rising program, and Red Hook's NY Rising committee was one of many created...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tide + surge + wind over water (fetch) = what you need to know. To calculate the risk of flooding at a location, You need to take the height of the expected storm surge, the time it is expected, and compare that time to the tide cycle in the harbor....
Sandy essentially flooded anyone who built on the former tidal marshes. Map Explanation by mapmaker Eymund Diegel: Red lines are the upland Sandy flood lines (minus part the Fort Defiance Island area which is missing dry non flood area during...
