STATEN ISLAND — The Army Corps of Engineers will host two public meetings this week on its new flood prevention plan that would raise a 20-foot high levee on Hylan Boulevard and add a buried seawall along Staten Island's coastline.
The corps will host sessions on Wednesday and Thursday night at Staten Island University Hospital North to give information on its new flood plan for the borough.
In June, the Army Corps released a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the nearly $579 million plan that includes a mixture of buried seawall, armored levee and floodwall stretching from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach to help waterfront neighborhoods withstand future storms.
"It is the most important project in Staten Island's foreseeable future," Borough President James Oddo told DNAinfo New York in June.
"We will not be satisfied, we will not relax until this is built."
The draft plan calls to build a levee on a section of Hylan Boulevard in Oakwood with a structure that could be closed off during a storm. The levee will lead into a mixture of a buried seawall and an armored levee made of stone that will run across the shoreline until Fort Wadsworth, according to the plan.
The protective measure will mainly follow the path of the existing Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and would demolish the current boardwalk and build a new one on top of the levee, according to the plan.
The information sessions will be on Wednesday and Thursday, from 6 to 9 p.m., at the Staten Island University Hospital North's McGinn Center, at 475 Seaview Ave.
South Shore of Staten Island Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study
