Climate Ready: New technology throughout NYC will help keep communities from drowning [Video]

We’ve seen prolific moisture with Hurricane Helene and Milton. If a storm were to hit our area are we ready to take on all of that water?

A project in development since the 1990s on Staten Island is a great opportunity and a possible answer to get rid of stormwater.

As severe rain events become more frequent and more intense, New York City officials have a plan, which is more water to keep communities from drowning.

It sounds counterintuitive, but Bluebelt Technology is a proven system that keeps communities from drowning.

“The Bluebelt System is a way to move water, rainfall that comes into our neighborhoods off the streets and into the bay,” Sangu Iyer Chief, Bluebelts & Urban Stormwater, DEP said.

An homage to Staten Island’s “Greenbelt” of connected open green space, runoff storm water drains into these bluebelts away from homes and streets.

They all use natural drainage …