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“It’s so important when you’re working in these neighborhoods to understand the history of what engineers did in New York City,” says Eric Rothstein, a managing partner at eDesign Dynamics, a water resources engineering firm. “In the Rockaways you’re talking about (late New York City public official) Robert Moses.” Historically, the projects he implemented involved heavy-handed, gray infrastructure with no regards for the community. “That’s the history that we’re butting up against every time we go into a community to do nature-based solutions,” Rothstein says. “(But) it’s still imposing something on a community if you don’t involve the community.”

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“This is part of the movement to soften and naturalize our river edges in general,” says Eric Rothstein, a managing partner at eDesign Dynamics, a water resources engineering firm. “That’s a global trend now. Previously everything was bulkheaded with concrete, and now it has been realized that that approach isn’t good for resiliency, and it certainly isn’t good for habitat. This is one of many attempts to re-soften the edge.”

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Through the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) grant to the government of Grenada, eDesign Dynamics partnered with the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management to complete a pre-feasibility study of various climate change preparation projects for the island, including adaptation of the historic center of the island, the Carenage Edge.

eDesign Dynamics’ Principal Engineer Franco Montalto, Ph.D., NOAA and the Water Research Foundation, along with other water management practitioners, addressed reevaluating stormwater design and flooding management in a recent webinar. The talk shared highlights from the recent workshop series, “Climate and Weather Information for Small- and Medium-size Water Utilities.” The webinar had more than 500 attendees from all over the country.

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eDesign Dynamics’ work with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and his MVVA at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens receives press attention from The New York Times.

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In his capacity as Professor at Drexel University, EDD president Dr. Franco Montalto is offering a new, online, continuing education class: Stormwater Planning in the Era of Climate Change at Drexel University. A maximum of 20 professional development hours (PDHs) can be obtained for the $600 registration fee. While learning the latest science on precipitation forecasting under climate change, students (both university and continuing ed) who are enrolled in the class will work directly with a set of cities and water utilities (or their own existing clients) to develop future design storms based on the latest climate projections for that region.

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