 DEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program, in partnership with the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC), has awarded two contracts to develop and design engineering plans for climate-resilient and connected waterfront areas in the City of Kingston and Village of Piermont. Each of these communities participated in the Climate-Adaptive Design Studio, a program which links Cornell University graduate and undergraduate students in landscape architecture with flood-risk Hudson Riverfront communities to create design concepts that incorporate projections for sea-level rise and extreme weather.
A $125,000 contract was awarded to Supermass Studio to develop a climate-resilient design for Kingston Point that will sustain and enhance native tidal wetlands while integrating public access corridors and recreational opportunities.
Henningson, Durham and Richardson Architecture and Engineering, P.C. (HDR) was awarded $125,000 for a Piermont living shoreline project that includes a waterfront walkway. The project incorporates elements of five resiliency designs created during the 2018 Climate-Adaptive Design Studio and will align with Piermont’s existing Waterfront Resiliency Program and Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan (LWRP).
Read more about these projects in DEC’s press release. |
