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$100M Anti-Flood Work to Add Sewers and Fix Roadways in South Beach

By Nicholas Rizzi | November 7, 2016 1:46pm
 The city will start work on a $100 million project to build new sewers and catch basins and upgrade roadways in South Beach.
The city will start work on a $100 million project to build new sewers and catch basins and upgrade roadways in South Beach.
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Department of Environmental Protection

SOUTH BEACH — A new $100 million project will add new sewers and fix roadways in an effort to curb flooding on South Beach street.

The city announced that work will start this month on improving drainage, rebuilding roadways and upgrading South Beach's drinking water distribution system to tackle heavy flooding that happens after rainfall.

"This is truly an exciting day," said Borough President James Oddo.

"The unfortunate reality is it doesn’t take an historic storm or even a decent Nor’Easter for residents of this community to have to deal with unacceptable levels of flooding. Any decent rain literally has no place to go. This project will help address that."

Currently the neighborhood has a small number of catch basins and its storm sewers are too limited to deal with heavy rain fall, officials said.

The project aims to fix that by installing 3.1 miles of new sewers, 225 new catch basins and rebuilding 3.8 miles of existing sanitary sewer systems, the Department of Environmental Protection said.

The city will also rebuild sidewalks, curbs and roadways to help storm water drain properly into the catch basins and sewers.

The project also calls to remove the cast iron water mains built in the 1920s and replace them with five miles of ductile iron pipes to supply drinking water and 90 new fire hydrants, the DEP said.

The city will also install 85 new street lights and plant 400 trees.

The DEP expects to finish the work by the end of 2020.