United States Senator Charles Schumer says he’s working to secure $12 million in federal funding for a resiliency study of the Great Lakes coastline.
New York’s Senior U.S. Senator says the Army Corps of Engineers is the only body that can do such a study, and get it done within a year. He says it should guide government officials in making the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie shorelines more resistant to flooding.
Schumer says he’ll push to get the money into the federal appropriations process now underway. Using the resulting study, the senator says governments at all levels can plan and build accordingly, just as was done on the Atlantic shoreline after Hurricane Sandy.
While Schumer wants to harden the coastline against flooding, one thing he doesn’t want to see is lakeshore homes bought up and people moved away. Senator Schumer says those homes are those people’s part of the American Dream, and they have a right to live in them.