![]() Build better levees along Six Mile Creek and Fall Creek, and do the dredging, and those areas in red are no longer in the 100-year flood zone. ![]() Thorne is hopeful that the initial funds can be used to perform design/engineering work, which will likely take a year to complete.Īs for the flood mitigations themselves, the plan is dredging on the state level, and floodwalls/levees on the local level. Schumer’s office, but they’re seeking $12 million more. At least $1.3 million has been awarded from Sen. Ithaca has completed a “Hazard Mitigation Plan” and has applied for at least three grants, and officials are hopeful at least one of them will be awarded. You can thank climate change and improved modeling techniques for that. The map above is the latest proposed FEMA Map - if your property is one of the 1,200 or so owners in the blue, you’re now in the 100-year floodplain and you’re going to have to buy very expensive flood insurance. Meanwhile, the city Department of Public Works is reviewing options and pursuing grants to design and build flood mitigations so that the flood maps may not be expanded as much. Thorne opened by discussing how FEMA has been in the process of updating Ithaca’s 1981 Flood Maps since 2015, and similar to most federal efforts, it takes eons to do. ![]() It’s a disaster waiting to happen, and it manifests in the revised, expanded FEMA flood maps that have so many Ithaca homeowners up in arms. The Flats, the West End, much of Fall Creek and Northside would be devastated by such a flood, especially as the inlet is still clogged with silt. Now, if you ask me what is my greatest reasonable fear for Ithaca, it’s a “100-year” flood on the scale of July 1935 - something that as the Ithaca Journal highlighted in 2015, could wipe out one-third of the city and cause over $400 million in damage (in 2015 dollars, so probably more like half a billion today).
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