It's a modern day version of Noah and the Ark, of sorts. Kingston took its first step Thursday afternoon in preparing for coastal flooding with part one in a series of public forums to discuss the historic Rondout waterfront.
The task force is a group comprised of government, nonprofit and business community volunteers. They plan to deliver a formal approach to address long-term climate change, with respect to rising storm surges, later this spring.
“The idea for this task force is to develop recommendations by looking at data, doing some analysis and joint thinking, that can feed into the various things that are already happening,” said Ona Ferguson, senior associate at the Consensus Building Institute.
Thursday's meeting was a collaboration between the City of Kingston, CBI, New York Department of State, Scenic Hudson, state Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
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