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{"32EFFE1A-5056-A066-60EC-4CF9F3EBBF70":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"32EFFE1A-5056-A066-60EC-4CF9F3EBBF70","title":"Lake Ontario Flooding in Cayuga County ","summary":"Fair Haven, NY ","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"June 17, 2019","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/lake-ontario-flooding-in-cayuga-county-","city":"Sterling","county":"Cayuga","lat":43.3165613,"lng":-76.71706599999999,"description":"On June 17,2019 U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer toured flood-ravaged Fair Haven in Cayuga County and reiterated his calls for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to provide funding for repairs to the West Pier and West Barrier Bar of Little Sodus Bay Harbor in the Village of Fair Haven. Schumer explained that years of intense wind and destructive flooding have worn down infrastructure on Little Sodus Bay Harbor and that in February, the West Pier and West Barrier Bar began to collapse, significantly decreasing resiliency in the area. Schumer said the failing infrastructure is a major issue for the Village of Fair Haven that requires expedient resolution, as it is already grappling with the flooding of Lake Ontario for the second time in three years and losing tourism business during the popular summer season.\r\n“With Lake Ontario flooding hitting historic records and wreaking havoc throughout Central New York’s shoreline communities, the Village of Fair Haven and Little Sodus Bay Harbor are in desperate need of a long-term fix to their crumbling resiliency infrastructure. The nonstop threat of flooding and damage along the harbor creates the very real possibility of irreparable harm being left on the area’s bustling tourism economy, which must be mitigated before it’s too late,” said Senator Schumer. “The Army Corps implementing a temporary fix on the West Pier was an important step in the right direction, but without longer-lasting measures, will amount to nothing less than putting a Band-Aid on top of a cut that needs stitches. In order to protect the Little Sodus Bay Harbor community from any further loss of revenue and the Central New York economy from costly harm, I’m urging the Army Corps to provide the funding needed to permanently repair the Little Sodus Bay Harbor West Barrier Bar and West Pier.”\r\n\r\nAdditionally, Schumer called on the International Joint Commission (IJC) to come and survey the flooding damage in Central New York areas like Cayuga and Oswego Counties, as it recently did in the Buffalo and Rochester areas. Schumer continued, “This Lake Ontario situation is dire in nature and requires all-hands-on-deck A-S-A-P. The IJC has a responsibility to analyze all of the flooding damage left along the Great Lakes’ shorelines and figure out how to prevent more of it in the future, and should add a stop in Cayuga County to its itinerary.”\r\n "}}

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