Residents of southeast Brooklyn have voted to endorse funding a coastal protection study and stormwater retention system, although it's ultimately New York Rising's Southeast Brooklyn Waterfront Planning Committee that gets to call the shots with the $4.38 million allocated to Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Mill Island, and Marine Park. The coastal protection study, with help from the Army Corps of Engineers, will help determine how to protect the neighborhoods from the next big storm while the stormwater retention system will convert Parks Department land into wetland. Both projects will cost the committee $500,000. [BP]
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