Potential projects

Projects presented and discussed at Workshop 2 - February 26, 2020:

Projects and Actions identified during the February 12, 2020 Workshop:

THEME: Improving Perimeter of Neighborhood

• Oyster reef to slow erosion build living shoreline
• Latham Park/southwest edge treatment/hardening
• Maintain Allin’s Cove
• Green Avenue street end/shoreline adaptation
• Clean-up invasive species
• Surf break to slow erosion
• Boat channel negative impacts from wakes
• Read Avenue property buyout; infrastructure removal?

THEME: Managing Stormwater

• Make sure stormwater gets out
• End of road treatments at Bay Spring, Green, Adams, etc.
• Road maintenance to resolve flooding
• Bay Spring culvert modifications, catch basin
• Marina pavement reduction
• Dam removal – Barrington Cove

THEME: Building Overall Resiliency

• Budget – Seek Grants / Town bond
• Resilient code overlay district
• Buy back of repetitive loss properties
• Permitting is complicated and difficult

THEME: Improving Power Supply

• Plan to get power back
• Atria generator capacity
• Backup power – microgrids
• Generators – shared
• Solar street lights

THEME: Evacuation Preparedness

• Evacuation plan and outreach education
• Improved evacuation signage

THEME: Post-event recovery

• Return plan (environmental)
• Recovery plan – homes/businesses
• More manpower for DPW to maintain systems

LOCATIONS OF CONCERN IDENTIFIED DURING 2/8/20 NEIGHBORHOOD WALK:

• Latham Park shoreline erosion
• Allins Cove shoreline
• Read Avenue flooding and stormwater
• Anawamscut Brook watercourse (culberts and dams)
• Street-end stormwater into Narraganset Bay
  • Bay Spring Avenue
  • Woodbine Avenue
  • Allen Avenue
  • Green Avenue
  • Read Avenue
  • Adams Avenue
• Stormwater from impervious surfaces at area parking lots
  • Lighthouse Marina
  • Bullocks Cove Marina
  • Haines Park
• Evacuation routes