PIERMONT

WATERFRONT RESILIENCE
TASK FORCE

Convened by the Villages

Piermont and Catskill
With Support, Technical Assistance and
Partnership from:
NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation Hudson River Estuary
Program
New England Interstate Water
Pollution Control Commission
Scenic Hudson
Consensus Building Institute
Lincoln Institute

WATERFRONT RESILIENCE TASK FORCE

Organizers, Project Team

1. Initiate a community-driven process to better

understand local risks tied to sea level rise
and tidal river flooding
2. Identify and prioritize strategies for making
Catskill more resilient
3. Generate a locally specific, broadly
understood and supported Resilience
Roadmap that:
makes people & property safer
ensures waterfront vitality
conserves coastal natural resources
WATERFRONT RESILIENCE TASK FORCE
GOALS

SOLUTIONS

What can be done now, and how it will help residents and businesses
What the communities can do to be more resilient in the future

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Jeffrey Anzevino - Director of Land Use Advocacy

Steve Rosenberg - Senior Vice President
Sacha Spector - Director of Conservation Science
Nava Tabak - Conservation Scientist
Mark Wildonger - Senior Planner

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Consensus Building Institute - Facilitation and Project Management

Bennet Brooks - Senior Mediator

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LWRP Update Committee

Architecture Student
Piermont Fire Chief
Village Board
Piermont Historical Society
Resident
LWRP Update Committee
LWRP Update Committee
Business Owner
LWRP Update Committee
Village Board, LWRP Update Committee
Village Chamber of Commerce
Pastor, Reformed Church
Village Grant Administrator
Resident

Additional members of
the public

NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program - Science and Planning

Kristin Marcell - Climate Program Coordinator
Libby Murphy - Climate Outreach Specialist
Catalysis Adaptation Partners - Benefit-Cost Economic Analysis
Jonathan Lockman - Vice President of Environmental Planning

Federal, State, and

County Agencies and
NGOs

s attendance at 3 or more Task Force meetings

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COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PROCESS

Recommendations prioritized by the Task Force:

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Improve emergency communications

Develop a comprehensive emergency management

plan (CEMP)

Work with local utilities to improve resilience

Establish a permanent flooding and storm resilience

committee

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Incorporate the findings/recommendations of the

PWRTF into the new Local Waterfront Revitalization
Program (LWRP)
Research the financing options for supporting flooding
adaptation, mitigation, and protection measures

Recommenda)ons priori)zed by the Task Force:

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Incorporate the ndings/recommenda5ons of the PWRTF into

the new Local Waterfront Revitaliza5on Program (LWRP)
Revise local code to:
promote the use of green shoreline infrastructure
(nature-based solu5ons)
Promote the long-term persistence of the Piermont
Marsh as a natural storm buer
Encourage the use of natural buers and green shoreline
infrastructure to reduce ood risk and erosion and
conserve natural resource func5ons

ADAPTATION
NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS

ADAPTATION
NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS

Piermont Marshway
COAST adaptation #3
Piermont Ave- elevate
Esplanades

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Bridges (one driving and one walking)

Removeable floodwall

Goal: To reduce people & assets in risk areas,

protect some areas, and create new green
infrastructure in village

Buyouts- 2020s
Buyouts- 2050s
Marsh expansion
Elevate
Floodproof

Adaptation Elements

Esplanades
New mixed use
development area

roads in black raised now to 6.75ft (MHHW +2 ft

freeboard + 29inches SLR) and to 10.3 ft in 2050
(MHHW +2ft freeboard+ 72inches SLR)
All properties in light purple elevated now to
ABFE (2014) + 2 ft freeboard + 29inchesSLR
All properties in purple wet flood-proofed on first
floors
Removable floodwall installed along dotted black
line - begins at grade and extends to 20NAVD
(MSL+10ftABFE +72SLR + 2ft freeboard)
New bridges installed now
Buyout homes in tan in 2020
Buyout homes in pale green in 2050
Construct esplanades in 2050

Piermont Marshway

Piermont Ave
Esplanade
Floodproofed or
elevated
structure

roadway elevated
to MHHW +2ft
freeboard + 3ft for
sea level rise

Fly Wheel Park W

Esplanade

seawall
& footing for
removable flood
wall

roadway elevated
to MHHW +2ft
freeboard + 3ft for
sea level rise

New
Construction

PIERMONT
WATERFRONT RESILIENCE
TASK FORCE