Meeting at the Hudson River Flood Resilience Network

Assemblage is heading to Hudson, NY this week to present the Hudson Valley Collaborative’s climate-adaptive waterfront design at the Hudson River Flood Resilience Network meeting. The Flood Resilience Network is a collaborative effort between Hudson riverfront communities supported by the Hudson River Estuary program that arose out of a collective desire to address the unprecedented storm levels and flooding currently impacting the Hudson riverfront communities. Together they are working to address their vulnerability to flooding and other impacts related to climate change and to explore and develop measures to improve resiliency to high impact storms, flooding, and the projected sea level rise.

Our climate-adaptive design, funded by the NY State Dept of Environmental Conservation and Hudson RIver Estuary Program, is a strategy that proposes nature-based design solutions to mitigate flood risk as an alternative to hardened shorelines that deter access to the riverfront. We will finish the days events by leading a park tour of the proposed design features including wetland filtration gardens, living shorelines, new boardwalks and a raised knoll and fishing pier at the waterfront, among others.

We are excited to share the design results from our year-long engagement process and it is our hope that our work can benefit the rest of the Flood Resilience Network!

written by Lori Ball Horton for Assemblage Landscape Architecture