In February 2010, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that the City will dedicate $100 million to installing new nitrogen control technologies at wastewater treatment plants located on Jamaica Bay.
The Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek Storm Surge Barrier Studies project is a conceptual feasibility
study that may be used in assessing the need to advance to more a detailed and complete feasibility
study and could inform such a study or the project implementation that may follow.
This report, along with the attached table, summarizes the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) fulfillment of the requirements for a flood mitigation plan in Queens Community Districts 12 and 13.