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2
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Private Property: (Municipalities
with Westchester County) Provide property owners with information on how
to flood proof their homes.
- Emergency Services Training: (Westchester County with FEMA, SEMO)
- Provide emergency preparedness information and training for municipal
officials and residents.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Stream Maintenance: (NYS DEC with Westchester County)
- Provide information and training for private property owners and
municipal officials regarding stream ownership, maintenance
responsibilities, inspection and removal of obstructions to flow,
regulatory issues and information for contacts at DEC and other involved
agencies.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Municipal Ordinances: (Westchester County with Municipalities)
- Compile a suite of model ordinances that address flood impacts.
Consider standards such as no net increase in runoff volume from new
development and strict standards for redevelopment. Provide a better
framework for local land use and zoning decisions.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Stormwater Infrastructure: (Westchester County with Municipalities, NYS
DOT)
- Local municipalities to map municipal storm sewer systems.
- County to work with watershed municipalities and others to compile
information and identify problem areas and evaluate opportunities for
improvements.
- Create a program for inspection and maintenance of stormwater
management structures and systems.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Flood Advisory Groups: (Westchester County with Municipalities, State
and Federal Agencies)
- County Flood Action Plan Task Force to advise Westchester County and
its municipalities on priorities for short term action items, review
and evaluate ongoing work efforts and reports, and provide direction on
long term strategies.
- Progress Report: Schedule fall progress meeting to report on the status
on each of the action items including timeframes for implementation.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Flood Advisory Groups: (Westchester County with Municipalities, State
and Federal Agencies)
- Municipalities to create watershed-based intermunicipal work groups to
look at stormwater and flooding issues specific to their watershed and
work with the County, State and Federal Agencies and the County Flood
Action Plan Task Force to identify and prioritize projects, and seek
funding to implement them.
- Establish interagency committee to meet on bi-annual or annual basis
with local and county representatives to review progress on short and
mid term actions and identify strategies and funding opportunities for
long term flood damage reduction.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Funding: (Westchester County with state and federal entities)
- Westchester County to work with BOL on a new capital project entitled Flood
Damage Reduction Program with significant funding to partner with local
municipalities, state and federal agencies on projects designed to
reduce or otherwise limit damage resulting from floods. Criteria for
funding will include demonstrated benefits to flood reduction and a commitment
to incorporate other strategies in local flood reduction plans.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Funding: (Westchester County with state and federal entities)
- Seek additional funding through state and federal sources including but
not limited to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and State
Emergency Management Office (SEMO).
- Work with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to identify potential
non-federal sponsors to implement/construct priority projects.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Private Stakeholder Outreach:
Schedule meetings for other major stakeholders, including
business and institutional entities with major property holdings such as
office parks, campus hospital facilities, school districts to review the
role they can play in dealing with flooding and specific opportunities
for stormwater retention or other flood reduction measures they can
implement in their respective municipalities.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Education: (Westchester County)
- County Website: Create a website
on flooding with information, resource links, a list of action items
identified at summit, copies of key reports and a portal for input by
local officials and residents and to monitor progress on action items
by county with partners.
- Make sure every homeowner knows if they live in a 100-year floodplain
or flood-prone area.
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- Immediate/Short Term
- Education: (Westchester County)
- Create an education program on flooding, why it floods, where, and
when, how to prepare for floods and how to protect against flood
damage.
- Work with existing citizen based groups such as Westchester Municipal
Planning Federation on a seminar or workshop series focusing on green
technology and the role it can play in stormwater management and flood
damage reduction.
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- Mid-Long Term
- Regulatory Controls:
- MS4 Regulations: Work with NYS DEC and municipalities to modify
regulations to specifically address stormwater management for flood
control and flood damage reduction.
- County Stream Control Law: Review current Stream Control Law and
consider expansion of jurisdiction, standards and requirements to
control development within and contributing to regulated stream
channels.
- County Sanitary Code: Expand review of proposed subdivisions by County
Department of Health to incorporate stormwater runoff management.
- Flood Control Entity: Investigate the formation of a watershed-based
regional flood control entity focusing on stormwater management, flood
mitigation and related issues.
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- In the next 3 – 6 months, we expect to:
- Initiate the Mamaroneck-Sheldrake Reevaluation Report
- Develop the Project Management Plan
- Identify the non-Federal Sponsor
- Begin negotiation of the Design Agreement
- Conduct site visits to the project area
- Initiate and complete the Westchester County Streams Reconnaissance
Report
- Identify the Water Resources problem(s)
- Identify potential solutions to those Water Resources problem(s)
- Determine whether there is preliminary Federal interest
- Identify potential non-Federal Sponsor(s) for follow-on Feasibility
efforts
- Develop the Project Management Plan
- Begin negotiation of the Feasibility Cost-Sharing Agreement with the
non-Federal Sponsor(s)
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- In the next 3 – 6 months, we expect to:
- Initiate the Saw Mill River at Elmsford and Greenburgh Reevaluation
Report
- Development of Project Management Plan
- Identification of non-Federal Sponsor
- Begin negotiation of the Design Agreement
- Conduct site visits to the project area
- Complete the Blind Brook Floodplain Management Services Watershed Study
- Award the contract for remaining tasks by the end of June
- Conduct site visits and meetings with City of Rye and Rye Brook.
- Initiate the Comprehensive Response Document
- Identify the Water Resources problem(s)
- Identify potential solutions to those Water Resources problem(s)
- Determine whether there is preliminary Federal interest
- Identify potential non-Federal Sponsor(s) for follow-on efforts
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