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Revere approves non-invasive flood sensors for Mills Ave and Belle Isle Marsh
Summary
The Revere Conservation Commission approved a negative determination of applicability to allow installation of grant-funded ultrasonic flood sensors at Mills Ave, Belle Isle Marsh and Remedy Marsh to provide early high-tide and sunny-day flood alerts to residents; data will be publicly hosted on the Hohonu platform.
Revere city staff and consultants told the Conservation Commission they intend to install a network of small, non-invasive ultrasonic sensors to provide early flood-warning alerts for neighborhoods near Belle Isle and Remedy marshes, and along Mills Avenue.
Kristen Hoemeyer, Revere’s resilience manager, and Justine Rooney, a coastal scientist with Woods Hole Group, said the sensors are part of a phase-two project funded by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s Accelerating Climate Resilience grant and the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management FY2026 Coastal Resilience Grant. “We are here to talk about a really exciting project that has been a year in the making,” Hoemeyer said.
Rooney described the equipment as Hohonu ultrasonic sensors about 36 centimeters…
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