NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):

National Coastal Resilience Fund

Project Title: Community-Driven Site Assessment and Preliminary Design of Flood Buyout Lands (NY)

Organization:

Town of Olive

Project ID:

0318.23.075472

Award Amount:

$290765.00

Location:

9 acres of vacated flood buyout land in the 100-year floodplain of the Esopus Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River, located in the small commercial center of the rural Hamlet of Boiceville, Town of Olive Ulster County, NY on NYS Route 28, the east-west highway linking I-87 to the Catskill Park.