Community-Driven Site Assessment and Preliminary Design of Flood Buyout Lands in New York

Recipient: Town of Olive, New York

Grant Amount: $290,800 Matching Funds: $70,800 Total Project Amount: $361,600

This award will 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. The 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.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage. For more information on the National Coastal Resilience Fund, visit National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s website.