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Infrastructure Goals and Strategies
This survey was prepared with funds provided by the New York State Department of State under Title 3 of the Environmental Protection Fund.
The following goals were identified based on an analysis of flood risk to priority areas, facilities, and services in Broome County.
1.
Which Infrastructure goal is most important to you? Select your top choice.
Goal 1 — Transportation and Access — Maintain safe and reliable access to important destinations during floods, severe storms, power outages, and winter weather.
Goal 2 — Public Services — Keep emergency response, public works, and government services running during and after flooding.
Goal 3 — Disadvantaged Communities — Make sure flood-related projects and emergency services consider impacts on disadvantaged communities and involve affected residents.
Goal 4 — Critical Infrastructure and Utilities — Keep essential services operating during emergencies, including water, wastewater, power, communications, and public facilities.
2.
Transportation and Access Strategies: Please select the strategies that are most important to you.
Keep roads and transportation routes open during and after flooding.
Assess important facilities for risks from flooding, severe weather, power outages, access problems, and other disruptions.
Provide reliable backup power and other energy options for important facilities and community service locations.
Improve water and wastewater systems to reduce service disruptions, backups, and overflows.
Protect transit facilities, fuel, backup power, and vehicle storage so transportation services can continue during emergencies.
3.
Flooding Strategies: Please select the strategies that are most important to you.
Prevent wastewater service problems and sewage releases during flooding.
Reduce flooding through improvements to streams, flood-prone areas, drainage, and other locations.
Reduce flooding and stormwater problems through maintenance, infrastructure improvements, natural approaches, and coordination across watersheds.
Reduce flood risk to people and buildings through careful development and improvements to existing properties.
Create regular maintenance and inspection schedules for culverts, storm drains, ditches, outfalls, and streams.
Develop a long-term plan to improve stormwater systems in areas with the greatest flooding problems, while considering impacts upstream and downstream.
Protect and restore wetlands, floodplains, streambanks, trees, and other natural areas that help reduce flooding.
Assess and improve levees, floodwalls, pumps, drainage systems, and areas at risk from erosion or slope failure.
Protect river and stream corridors while supporting safe public access and protecting habitat, water quality, and natural flood storage.
4.
Communications Strategies: Please select the strategies that are most important to you.
Establish backup communication systems so that emergency responders can communicate during flooding.
Provide guidance and financial assistance to help property owners reduce flood damage, such as sump pumps, backflow prevention, elevation, and floodproofing.
Improve backup communication systems in areas with unreliable cell, radio, or internet services.
Improve coordination with electric, gas, water, wastewater, and communication providers so essential services can be restored quickly after disruptions.
5.
Other Infrastructure Strategies/ Actions: