The Battery Coastal Resilience Project hopes to reduce the impact of storms like Hurricane Sandy and protect the park from rising sea levels.
NEW YORK -- New York City officially broke ground Monday on the Battery Coastal Resilience project, as the U.S. approaches hurricane season. Nearly 12 years ago, a more-than-9-foot storm surge from Superstorm Sandy flooded The Battery, filling the tunnel with water, knocking out power and destroying property. The new project aims to reduce the impact of future storms like Sandy and protect Battery Park from rising sea levels.
'Adams said the project is a piece of the overall Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency strategy, which also involves work in the Financial and Seaport districts, the East Side and the Brooklyn Bridge/Montgomery Street area.'The sea level rise is going to be about 5 feet in 70 years. So we had to be able to raise the elevation of the water's edge,' said Michael Bradley, the project administrator with the Parks Department.
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