The New York Department of State has begun construction on a $627,000 resiliency project awarded to Orleans County through the state’s Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative (REDI). The money will fund work on the Point Breeze Boat Launch near the ...

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The city of Rochester Fire Department has acquired a new fire and rescue boat, Marine 1, to be deployed by Engine 19, the Lake Avenue Fire Station. Marine 1 will provide substantially improved fire, rescue and medical water-based response capabilities ...

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The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released its 2018-2020 progress report on the restoration and protection of New York’s Great Lakes resources. The report highlights a number of projects in and around Rochester and the Finger Lakes designed to ...

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Construction has begun on the West Point Marina resiliency project in Greece, one of 11 Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative (REDI) projects awarded to the town of Greece. The nearly $550,000 grant-funded project will help protect West Point Marina, or ...

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Construction has begun on a $7.58 million Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative (REDI) project in the village of Sodus Point. The project will protect public areas, businesses and homes along Wickham Boulevard and Greig Street from lakeshore flooding. The groundbreaking ...

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The battered Wayne County beaches and break walls are slated to receive vital fixes, with the help of $4.5 million in federal funding. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said the funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will help repair ...

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Local and county government contributions toward the state’s new Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI), which addresses sustainability in light of recent flooding along the Lake Ontario shoreline and St. Lawrence River, have been lowered in response to municipality pushback, according ...

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New York State will earmark up to $20 million to expand the state Department of Housing and Community Renewal Residential Home Repair Program in response to homeowners along Lake Ontario who have said they still are in need of individual ...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Rochester Monday morning to drum up support for his new Lake Ontario Resiliency & Economic Development Initiative, or REDI. “We have a major challenge ahead of us,” Cuomo said to a standing-room-only crowd that included ...

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Lake Ontario is getting its own task force to develop a plan to harden the waterfront infrastructure and enhance regional economies in flood-prone regions. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week he has formed the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development ...

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The County of Monroe will receive $1.5 million in grant funding from the state Office of Community Renewal to support a number of county infrastructure restoration and mitigation projects along the Lake Ontario shoreline. “The flooding of Lake Ontario in ...

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