File #: Int 0556-2026    Version: * Name: An annual report on drainage infrastructure.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection and Waterfronts
On agenda: 2/12/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an annual report on drainage infrastructure
Sponsors: James F. Gennaro
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection to issue an annual report on the condition of critical water drainage infrastructure within the City. It would further require a description of all outages that occurred in the previous year – detailing the length and severity of the outage, as well as the steps taken to resolve it.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

By Council Member Gennaro

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an annual report on drainage infrastructure

 

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 24-532 to read as follows:

                     § 24-532 Annual report on drainage infrastructure. a. No later than February 1 of each year, the commissioner of environmental protection shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report on the condition of municipal drainage infrastructure.

b. The report required by subdivision a of this section shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information:

1. A description of the current operational condition of all treatment locations, wastewater pump stations, sewer regulators and other critical drainage infrastructure; and

2. For every instance in the previous year where infrastructure was either out of service or operating at a reduced capacity;

(a) A description of the affected infrastructure;

(b) The length of the disruption;

(c) Whether such disruption was partial or full;

(d) The cause of the disruption; and

(e) A description of any actions, whether conducted or planned, in response.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

MHL

LS #8566

Int. #0032-2024

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