General News: FEMA Grant for Riverfront on Slow Track
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| The riverfront in winter |
February 12, 2008
The rush to reinforce the riverfront against erosion has turned into a crawl.
On Monday evening, Cornwall-on-Hudson Mayor Joe Gross told the trustees at their monthly work session that they still have more than three years to use a $226,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop erosion at Donahue Memorial Park.
Last September, Bob Gilmore, the former head of the village’s department of public works, said the village had one year to install a series of reinforcements, called a moffia wall, along the waterfront.
On Thursday, two representatives from the New York state office of emergency management and two representatives of Congressman John Hall’s office met at the riverfront park with Mayor Gross and two members of the village’s riverfront revitalization committee.
Gross said that the state officials are willing to explore other options besides the moffia wall for strengthening the shoreline. “It was clear from the meeting that they don’t like to come into communities and tell them how to do things,” Gross told the trustees.
The mayor said he was pleased with the outcome because he didn’t think the village should be rushed into making a decision. “I wanted to make sure we are not going to lose the money or the park,” he said.
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