Nantucket officials review major designs to reduce recurring flooding on Easy Street

Summary

Select Board and project team presented four alternatives and a new road-raising option for the Easy Street Flood Mitigation Project, funded in part by a Coastal Zone Management grant; the town will hold a public virtual open house March 18 and expects to recommend a preferred design after collecting feedback.

Select Board members and the project team presented updated design alternatives for the Easy Street Flood Mitigation Project on March 12, laying out trade-offs between bulkhead upgrades, phased road-raising and a full road-raising approach and asking the public for feedback before recommending a preferred option.

The project manager, Leah (project manager), said the town received a coastal resilience grant from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to fund work to 30% design and described the project as “the first structural Coastal Resilience Plan recommendation being implemented.” The project team stressed that any selected option would reduce frequent tidal flooding but cannot eliminate all future risk from sea level rise.

The project area runs along Easy Street from the South Beach Street/Broad Street intersection to Old North Wharf and includes Easy Street Park and the Steamboat Wharf entrance. Arcadis presenters Trevor Johnson and Bill Casey reviewed four alternatives (bulkhead…

Nantucket officials review major designs to reduce recurring flooding on Easy Street

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