Officials on Tuesday broke ground on the years-in-the-making Red Hook Coastal Resiliency Project, a series of flood walls and other measures meant to protect the low-lying neighborhood from coastal flooding.

The $218 million project will line the outer edges of the neighborhood, with almost 1.5 miles of flood walls and eight deployable flood gates along parts of Columbia and Ferris streets near Atlantic Basin and on Beard and Reed streets. A number of local streets will be re-graded and raised up to three feet, an effort to provide passive flood mitigation in a neighborhood that sits only a few feet above sea level at its lowest point.

“The Red Hook Coastal Resiliency Project will deliver meaningful protection against storm surges caused by climate change,” DEP commissioner Rohit Aggarwa

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