Flood Mitigation Project Update

Back in mid-November I was advised that the RBA Group design firm was nearing completion of its final proposed design plan for the flood mitigation project here in Broad Channel.

On November 17th, I contacted Department of Transportation (Borough of Queens) Commissioner Maura McCarthy about the status of the final design proposal for this project asking if it would be possible to view the plan designs.

I was advised by Commissioner McCarthy that…

“I hope you understand that we are unable to release RFP documents until they are officially released for bidding. That being said we will be incorporating comments received from the community and will be sharing the design approach with the community prior to the RFP's issuance.”

I then reached out to Joe Menzer of the RBA Group design firm who informed me that…

“ One of the major milestones in a capital project for DDC is Mass Mailing no. 1 / Alignment Meeting. This is the point where we have developed set of preliminary plans that are distributed to many of the city agencies and utility companies

The set of preliminary plans developed by the RBA Group was completed in late November and the New York City Department of Design and Construction recently distributed this preliminary final design to all involved (or otherwise affected) municipal agencies, utility companies and other city offices for their individual review and comments to be returned to the DDC in early January 2012 under Mass Mailing #1 Project ID: HWQ1182A (Roadway Reconstruction and Construction of Bulkheads on West 11th, 12th and 13th Roads from Cross Bay Boulevard to the new Bulkhead at the end of each Road).

Roadway and Bulkhead Construction Scan

Our local Community Board (#14) received their copy of DDC’s Mass Mailing #1 of the preliminary design plans for review on December 7th and made their copy available to Dan Mundy, President of the Board Channel Civic Association, on December 14th.

Dan had a pdf file created of the design plans and forwarded them to our association on the following day, December 15th .

In turn, on December 16th, we sent out a mass emailing to residents of West 11th, 12th and 13th Roads with a copy of these preliminary plans attached.  Additionall, I have included a copy of these plans on a Scribd pdf viewer in this posting for your information.

Over the next several days, the residients of West 12th Road will meet to review these preliminary plans and forward all comments regarding same back to Dan Mundy hopefully no later than Friday, December 23rd so that he, in turn, can advise Community Board 14 of all such comments.
 
It is strongly recommended that the block representatives from West 11th and 13th Roads conduct a similar review with their residents and respond to Dan as soon as possible.
 
It is important to note that, at this time,. these plans are "preliminary" in nature and will not be codified into an actual final design until such time as all involved city agemcies, utility companies, etc., have had an opportunity to review and comment on same.  On West 12th Road we are still awaiting staff from the RBA Group to inspect several properties at the bay end of the street to check water main feed lines and traps to ensure the street reconstruction will not interefere with same.
 
Once all comments are recieved and inspections competed, the final design will be prepared at which time the DOT and the RBA Group will meet with the residents of all three streets to review same prior to the final design being published for bidding which should occur some time in January 2012.