Empower youth leaders to engage residents of the Town of Olive in imagining new uses for vacated floodplain lands to restore habitat and provide community green spaces to reduce impacts of flooding. Project will conduct soil and elevation analysis, identify wetlands and riparian areas, confirm property lines, and conduct a vegetation inventory on the parcels identified for restoration.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
National Coastal Resilience Fund
Project Title: Community-Driven Site Assessment and Preliminary Design of Flood Buyout Lands (NY)
Organization:
Town of Olive
Project ID:
0318.23.075472
Description:
Award Amount:
$290765.00
Location:
9 acres of vacated flood buyout land in the 100-year floodplain of the Esopus Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River, located in the small commercial center of the rural Hamlet of Boiceville, Town of Olive Ulster County, NY on NYS Route 28, the east-west highway linking I-87 to the Catskill Park.