File #: Int 1150-2024    Version: * Name: Creation of a comprehensive stormwater plan and a stormwater dashboard.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 12/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a comprehensive stormwater plan and a stormwater dashboard
Sponsors: James F. Gennaro
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to develop a comprehensive stormwater plan that recommends a capacity at which the stormwater system should be able to convey rainfall. The plan would also identify projects or policies necessary to achieve such capacity and to reduce stormwater flooding. Additionally, this bill requires DEP to develop and maintain a dashboard that indicates the status of the comprehensive stormwater plan and of any projects recommended by the plan.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1150, 2. Int. No. 1150, 3. Committee Report 12/17/24, 4. December 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1150

 

By Council Member Gennaro

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a comprehensive stormwater plan and a stormwater dashboard

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-503.3 to read as follows:

§ 24-503.3 Comprehensive stormwater plan and stormwater dashboard. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Department. The term “department” means the department of environmental protection.                     

Level of service. The term “level of service” means the expected performance of the stormwater system to capture and divert rainfall and minimize street flooding.

b. Comprehensive stormwater plan. No later than July 1, 2028, the department shall, in consultation with the office of long-term planning and sustainability, develop a comprehensive stormwater plan covering the entire city. Such plan shall: identify the 10-year rainfall flood risk area, as defined in section 24-809, and recommend levels of service for such area and for outside such area; identify projects or policy changes needed to provide the recommended levels of service; recommend short- and long-term stormwater management projects with priority given to projects that address the areas most vulnerable to stormwater flooding; recommend measures owners of private property could adopt to mitigate stormwater flooding; and recommend any other measures that should be taken to mitigate stormwater flooding.

c. Stormwater dashboard. 1. No later than July 1, 2026 the department shall create and maintain a stormwater dashboard on the department’s website.

2. Before the department publishes the comprehensive stormwater plan required pursuant to subdivision b, such dashboard shall: indicate the status of such plan; indicate the status of capital stormwater management projects; indicate the flood risk area maps created pursuant to section 24-809 or provide a reference to such maps; and provide recommendations of measures that owners of private property could adopt to mitigate stormwater flooding. As proposed components of the comprehensive stormwater plan are completed, they shall be posted on the dashboard in accordance with a schedule established by the department.

3. After the department publishes such comprehensive stormwater plan, such dashboard shall include a copy of the comprehensive stormwater plan, a description of the recommended levels of service that apply to different areas of the city, and the current status of all projects, policy changes or other measures recommended by the comprehensive stormwater plan. Should a project, policy change, or other measure be determined to no longer be recommended, or is otherwise not likely be completed, then such project, policy change, or other measure shall remain listed on such dashboard, with its status indicated as appropriate.

4. Such dashboard shall be updated no less than once annually.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

AGB/BJR

LS #18508                     

12/4/2024 3:01 PM