New York City officials announced a new $100 million capital commitment to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials made the announcement Thursday while handing out "proceed-bags" on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
They said protection would be built from the base of the Manhattan Bridge,around the tip of the island, to Battery Park City.
The diagram will use measures like levees, or flood walls and additional park land to soak up storm water. A timetable for construction has not been set.
The diagram was unveiled as the city competes for $500 million in federal funding for additional resiliency efforts.
It is piece of the city's overarching $20 billion resiliency diagram created in the wake of the devastation left by Sandy in 2012.
Source: wnyc.org