On behalf of DEP, the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) proposed an infrastructure improvement under Capital Project SEQ200490, known as the 95th Street-Shellbank Basin Infrastructure Improvements project. The proposed project in Queens Community District 10 in the Old Howard Beach neighborhood would improve drainage over an approximate 15.21-acre drainage area. Shellbank Basin generally bounds the project area to the west, 160th Avenue to the north, 162nd Avenue to the south, and 97th Street to the east.

The proposed project involves the installation of new stormwater collection sewers that would collect stormwater runoff and direct it to a new outfall at Shellbank Basin, thereby alleviating street and property flooding. We installed a new 60-inch by 38-inch outfall west of 95th Street and 162nd Avenue adjacent to an existing 12-inch stormwater outfall, which we removed. We also installed an outfall with a tide gate at the pipe outlet and a 15-foot wide by 10-foot-long splash pad. To install the outfall, a small area of private property along the shoreline and within the mapped street right-of-way would need to be acquired. The project also included re-lining some sanitary sewer sections and replacing water mains, as necessary. We restored all project area streets affected by the infrastructure improvements paved at the end of construction and implemented a tidal wetland restoration plan.