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fe a tu re
The buyout program gives property owners
100 percent of their pre-storm home value, as
well as an additional five percent if they buy
homes in the same county, all while restoring
Oakwood Beach to its natural state.
Dewberry served as the prime consultant to the New
the study, but an integrated approach would also allow
York State Department of Environmental Conservation
maritime forest habitats, streams, freshwater and tidal
through the New York State Office of General Services to
wetlands, upland grasslands, and floodplain vegetative
perform a flood resilience study for a drainage area of
ecosystems to be restored to pre-development levels. If
approximately 3.3 square miles, with a line of protection
approved by Congress, Dewberry's conceptual design
along the Oakwood Beach shore of approximately
concepts will provide environmental and recreational
two miles. The goal was to evaluate the feasibility of
benefits, reduce flood risk for more than 1,800 homes,
incorporating natural infrastructure solutions, such as
and provide stormwater detention benefits to reduce
stormwater detention ponds and tidal wetlands, while
flooding from rainfall.
providing coastal protection with rock revetment in
conjunction with USACE's South Shore of Staten Island
Working Collectively on a Tight Schedule
Feasibility Study, also underway at the time.
Through both facilitation and engagement with the
Nature-Based Infrastructure as a Deterrent
to Natural Disasters
agencies involved, Dewberry completed the conceptual
design in a tight four-month window, allowing USACE
to consider the incorporation of the feasibility study
Dewberry collaboratively worked with stakeholders
study involved multidiscipline expertise in stormwater
infrastructure solutions. Reducing flood risk within the
management, coastal engineering, civil and geotechnical
Oakwood Beach community was the first priority for
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into its final design. This flood resiliency planning
to find a combination of natural and manmade
engineering, and environmental restoration.
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