The Catskill Chronicle

In this 2006 photo, flood waters crash against the bridge leading from Main Street to Livingston Manor School. – Leni Santoro photo

PHILADELPHIA  – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District, has launched an Internet Web site to help coordinate the Flood Damage Reduction and Environmental Restoration Feasibility Study being done in the hamlet of Livingston Manor, N.Y.

The Web site, http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Projects/livingston_manor/index.htm, catalogs prior reports conducted in Sullivan County , N.Y., local news articles, as well as maps and data collected as part of the study.

“The Army Corps’ new Web site will help keep local residents apprised of all the work being done as part of the Flood Damage Reduction and Environmental Restoration Feasibility Study being done in Livingston Manor,” said Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22). “I was pleased to secure $796,000 from Congress for this and other flood mitigation work in the Upper Delaware River Valley .  We must do whatever we can to limit future flood and protect against the loss of life and property.”

The study is in response to flooding throughout the Livingston Manor area of the Upper Delaware River Basin and is a cost-share project with the Corps of Engineers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The study will examine the problems, needs, opportunities and potential alternative solutions for flood risk management and ecosystem restoration within the 100-square-mile watershed.