NYC Mayor Bloomberg revealed an ambitious plan amounting to $20 billion aiming to restore the remaining areas drastically affected by Hurricane Sandy and prevent a repeat of the said incident.
"This plan is incredibly ambitious - and much of the work will extend far beyond the next 203 days - but we refused to pass the responsibility for creating a plan onto the next administration," he said in a speech at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 11. "This is urgent work, and it must begin now."
This so-called ambitious plan includes broad system of flood walls, dikes, and barriers that will surround the 520-mile coast of the city. It will also implement strengthening of the infrastructures, power grids, and buildings to hold out hurricanes and other extreme weather conditions.
The government had received over 250 proposals from different developers on making this plan possible. One of them is the task force managed by the Urban Green Council which presented 33 recommendations.
In their proposal, buildings will be required to provide drinking water and exterior plugs for their generators to share with homes in case of power outage during hurricanes. Homes will be built only above the flood line which they call ‘raised homes’. Apartments and business establishments will need to remodel their faucets, toilets and sinks to be less dependent on power grids.
NYC is not yet ready for another Sandy and is still recuperating until now.
Hurricane Sandy was the second costliest storm in U.S history which affected 24 states when it made its landfall on October 29. Greatly affected states were New Jersey and New York causing tremendous flooding everywhere and power outage in the entire city. Many people lost their homes to flood and fire. At least 53 people died in New York and damage reached $18 billion.
