GREAT KILLS — The city started work this week on a $48 million sewer project designed to reduce flooding in Great Kills and Eltingville.
The Department of Environmental Protection's project will add more than four miles of new sewers, on Hylan Boulevard from Wiman to Winchester avenues, which they said will help drain stormwaters from roads and improve the reliability of the water delivery systems in the neighborhoods.
"Regular flooding on the South Shore has been a quality of life concern for years," Rep. Dan Donovan said in a statement. "With this and other planned storm resiliency project, Staten Island is becoming less vulnerable to Mother Nature — a priority I'll continue to focus on as Chairman of the House Subcommittee and Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communictations."
The project — which is funded by the DEP and managed by the Department of Design and Construction — will also add 172 new catch basins to the streets and replace nearly three miles of existing water mains with iron pipes, the DEP said.
During construction, about 7,560 linear feet of 8-inch sanitary sewers will be replaced with 10-inch sewers the DEP said will increase the capacity of wastewater collection.
Construction is expected to be finished by the end of 2017, the DEP said.
"This long-awaited capital sewer project will relieve Hylan Boulevard of storm water and make for much safer conditions," Borough President James Oddo said in a statement. "When this project is completed, this stretch of road will be fully resurfaced, to join almost every other section of Hylan Blvd. that has been resurfaced since 2010."
