Dec 10, 2024
OBSERVER Photo by Braden Carmen Lake Front Boulevard takes a beating during high-wind events.
Dunkirk will use a recent grant in its quest to protect the Lake Erie waterfront, city Planning and Development Director Vince DeJoy said Tuesday.
“This is something we have been working on as a comprehensive look at Dunkirk Harbor and the ill effects of severe storm damage, seiche events, and so forth,” DeJoy said at a Common Council meeting.
“That’s causing bluff erosion at Wright Park, that’s causing wave action in the Marina and in the harbor,” he continued. “We saw Congressman (Nick) Langworthy here to announce an appropriation for an earmark to address that with a nature based solution. But also the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative had some grant funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resiliency Fund to put together this project implementation framework.”
The latest grant awarded to Dunkirk was part of $2.98 million offered to seven U.S. Great Lakes cities. The grant was announced last week.
Holding up a copy of the “project implementation framework,” DeJoy said it was “mostly a lot of technical assistance from environmental architects and other scientists to look at Wright Park and the erosion occurring on the bluffs and potentially protecting our very critical infrastructure.”
DeJoy continued, “What this grant was for was to take this project implementation framework and have some engineering and design for some sort of nature based solution… so we can have something to apply for further grant money to complete it.”
The “nature based solution” involves segmented breakwaters to protect the lakeshore. City officials want them, in part, to protect Lakefront Boulevard from taking the full force of Lake Erie storms.
“It’s basically something we’re planning for the future, to protect what we have,” DeJoy said.
“We’ve been trying since 1992 to get those put in over there to save that Lakefront Boulevard,” Councilperson Nancy Nichols commented.
In a sign of Fredonia’s budget crunch, Fredonia Fire Chief Josh Myers said Wednesday he doesn’t have money to …
Years of legal wrangling over a bed and breakfast inside the Lily Dale Assembly have come to a close. Lily Dale …
The city of Dunkirk’s deficit has gone down a bit, but still tops $2 million. It also faces a more than $100,000 …
The city of Dunkirk’s deficit has gone down a bit, but still tops $2 million. It also faces a more than $100,000 …
Copyright © Observer Today | https://www.observertoday.com | PO Box 391, Dunkirk, NY 14048 | 716-366-3000
