Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
PIERMONT
COASTAL HAZARDS
TIDES & WAVES
STORM SURGES
EROSION
FRESHWATER
TRIBUTARY FLOODING
COASTAL HAZARD:
Coastal Inundation
COASTAL HAZARD:
Coastal Inundation
COASTAL HAZARD:
Freshwater Tributary Flooding
1% Zone
A
RISING
RIVER
Hudson
River
is
over
12
higher
than
a
century
ago
21st
Century
SLR
is
much
more
rapid
and
seems
to
be
accelera=ng
1856-2010:
1.7mm/yr
1996-2013:
3.7mm/yr
rolling
5
year
average
2000
-
2011:
6.76mm/yr
CLIMATE CHANGE
SEA LEVEL RISE PROJECTIONS FOR HUDSON
RIVER
Low Estimate
Middle Range
High Estimate
(10th percentile) (25-75th percentile) (90th percentile)
2020s
4-8
10
2050s
11-21
30
2080s
13
18-39
58
2100s
15
22-50
75
2100
Current
2020s
Risk Areas
2100
2050s
Inundated
Extreme Risk
High Risk
Medium Risk
The assessment illustrated that due to Piermonts topography, its associated risk areas are not expected to expand dramatically in size as
sea level rises. Rather, we can anticipate the existing risk areas within the low-lying waterfront to gradually but dramatically shift into higher
hazard categories in other words become riskier over time. For example, while the wide base of the pier has been elevated during its
most recent redevelopment, a pattern of water pinching in from both north and south of the pier will develop in the coming century, which
unless mitigated will cause regular inundation for core business district assets (commercial and residential) at the base of the pier.
Village of Piermont
Planning for Resilience: With significant challenges ahead, communities have an opportunity to begin planning
and implementing long-range solutions that will increase resilience and maintain the vitality of Hudson River
waterfronts. A range of innovative approaches to planning, architecture, infrastructure, and natural resource
conservation are available to create locally-appropriate solutions that reduce risk to people, property and nature
while opening up new possibilities for taking advantage of our region's greatest asset - the Hudson River.
Village of Piermont
HOUSEHOLDS
Households
at Risk
Inundation Level
At risk of flooding
People
at Risk
PEOPLE
At risk of inundation
Land atLAND
risk (acres)
(acres)
Amount
of Sea Level
Inundation
Level Rise
Inundation Level
Adaptation
Options:
that protect critical infrastructure and ensure the viability of important
Above: Estimates of the number of
Expanding Hazards We must find solutions
natural
resources. The best plans will provideHouseholds,
locally specific
that balance options for coastal defense, strategic
Peopletactics
and Land
Over the course of the century, as sea level rise
accommodation
and
managed
potentially exposed to flooding and/
changes the reach
of daily
high tidesrelocation.
and flood
or daily high tide inundation given
elevations,
risks to people
and property
Coastal defense:
Solutions
that will
Strategic
accommodation:
increasing
increments of seaSolutions
level
shift. A sea
level risecritical
of 72 inches
the sea
protect
existing
infrastructhat
permit
flooding
including
rise. Derived from US Census data
level
rise
projections
adopted
by
the
Task
ture - including sea walls, rip rap,
raised
adaptive
andinfrastructure,
Scenic Hudson sea
level risedesign
Force
forand
the 2100
planningshorelines
timeframe would strategies and compatible land uses
levies
hardened
data. Available through the Scenic
make the areas along Piermonts waterfront and
Hudson Sea Level Rise Mapper
its low-lying neighborhoods increasingly
(www.scenichudson.org/slr)
subject to tides or flooding.
Model
COAST Model
of
Cumulative from
Predicted
ExpectedNumber
Damageof
to Tax
the
Model
From COAST
a Single
Storm
Permanently
SeaProjected sea level
Year of Level
SLR
and All Storms
Elevation
Value
of
Cumulative
Expected
Value
of
COAST
Model
rise
Parcels Affected
In This Year
Inundated by SLR
100 Year
Model
All Buildings &
All Buildings and
Cumulative Expected
Up ToDamage
This Year
Rise
Storm Flood Above Total Flood
Improvements
Improvements Located on
to the Value of
2025from MHHW Elevation
10" for
26.7
2.6
18.9
Height
From24
Properties
Permanently
All Buildings & Improvements
FEMA ABFE, in 2013
Each
This Single Storm
Sea Level Rise if
From
2055
29"
87Incident Inundated by
35.7
17.9
70.8
2013
in the
No Action is Taken, by this
Sea Level Rise and All Storms, 2013 to
Selected Scenario
NAVD88
2100
72"
178
56.7
60.4
NAVD 88
Scenario Year
Year
Scenario Year192.2
by
1
(ft.)
($ Million)4
($ Million)3
($ Million) 3
(ft.)
Scenic
Type to enter text
A
V Hudson A
V
Total
Total
2
Year
Zone Zone
Zone
Zone A estimates
Zone V Zone
Village
The COAST
Vulnerability
Assessment
that with
no A Zone
(ft)
COAST Model
V Zone Results
Villageof the
A Zone
V Zone Vulnerability
Total Village
adaptation actions:
2025 10.0 12.0
0.83
10.83 12.83
17.8
8.9
26.7
2.1
0.5
9.0
47.2
23.6
70.8
www.scenichudson.org/slr
H u ds o n R i v e r S e a L e v e l R i s e
Vi l l a g e o f P i e r m on t
Village of Grandview-on-Hudson
Village of Tarrytown
Planning for Resilience: With significant challenges ahead, communities have an opportunity to begin planning
and implementing long-range solutions that will increase resilience and maintain the vitality of Hudson River
waterfronts. A range of innovative approaches to planning, architecture, infrastructure, and natural resource
conservation are available to create locally-appropriate solutions that reduce risk to people, property and nature
while opening up new possibilities for taking advantage of our region's greatest asset - the Hudson River.
Village of Piermont
Households at Risk
At risk of flooding
People at Risk
At risk of inundation
Village of Piermont
Town of Orangetown
Village of Irvington
Inundation Level
Inundation Level
Inundation Level
Adaptation Options: We must find solutions that protect critical infrastructure and ensure the viability of important
natural resources. The best plans will provide locally specific tactics that balance options for coastal defense, strategic
accommodation and managed relocation.
Town of Orangetown
Feet
2,900
72" 66" 60" 54" 48" 42" 36" 30" 24" 18" 12" 6"
Inundation Level:
Library
Treatment Plant
Hard Shoreline
Current River
1,450
Inundation Modeling
Albany
Adaptation:
Defense
Adaptation:
Accommodate
Adaptation:
Relocate
Poughkeepsie
Acknowledgements: Grant funding provided by the DeCoizart Foundation, the Whitney Foundation, Sean Eldridge and
New York
the Wildlife Conservation Society. Project data or technical assistance provided by the NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program, Dr. Roger Flood of Stony Brook University and the NOAA Coastal Services Center.