{"id":278082,"date":"2026-06-25T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:10:29","slug":"manhattan-city-commission-hears-plans-for-future-stormwater-drainage-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278082\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan city commission hears plans for future stormwater drainage projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City officials say a series of major drainage projects are still needed to address flooding concerns across the city, even as work on the levee system nears completion.<\/p>\n<p>During Tuesday\u2019s work session, public works director Brian Johnson outlined the city\u2019s stormwater finances and long-term capital improvement plans, which include projects in North Manhattan, Aggieville, South Manhattan and the Campus Creek watershed.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the city expects about $5.8 million in stormwater revenue in 2026. A portion of that revenue supports debt associated with the levee improvement project through a stormwater surcharge implemented in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials say a series of major drainage projects are still needed to address flooding concerns across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-278082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}