Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Department of Environmental Protection announced a $68 million plan to alleviate flooding to Prospect Park and surrounding neighborhoods. <\/p>\n
The investment is said to help fund a bluebelt that would create space in the park’s lake so that drainage will flow into the lake, rather than flowing out of the lake. <\/p>\n
The City of New York Deputy mayor of operations Jeffery Roth said the investment will help the 158-year-old park for years to come. <\/p>\n
“Investments, totaling nearly $70 million, will strengthen the park’s natural drainage systems, reduce storm impacts on nearby communities and enhance the park experience for decades to come,” shared Roth. <\/p>\n
Rohit Aggarwala, commissioner with the Department of Environmental Protection also shared that the bluebelt would be a first for Brooklyn and will also include new rain gardens, restored wetlands and nature-based flood protections that keep homes and streets dry.<\/p>\n
“Currently, the way the park was designed, it actually can take us up to three weeks to lower this lake in a significant way. It will enable us to lower lake levels in under 36 hours, greatly increased our storm capacity,” said Aggarwala.<\/p>\n
“In all of our bluebelts, that water is filtered. So, it will not be just pure runoff from the street that goes into the lake,” he continued. <\/p>\n
This investment made by the Adams administration comes after a year-long study of flooding and of how stormwater moves through Prospect Park during heavy rain. <\/p>\n
The design process with construction is anticipated to start in 2029 and be completed in 2032.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Department of Environmental Protection announced a $68 million plan to alleviate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,15353,14236,9,24,63,15739],"class_list":{"0":"post-60215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-flash-flooding","12":"tag-flooding","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-prospect-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60215","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=60215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}