HULL – Representative Joan Meschino (D-Hull) welcomed Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton to the Hull Lifesaving Museum on August 1, 2018 for his announcement of the Office of Coastal Zone Management’s Coastal Resilience Grants. Across the state, the grants will provide $3.2 million in funding to support local efforts to proactively plan for and adapt to coastal storm and climate change impacts, including storm surge, flooding, erosion and sea level rise.
CZM’s Coastal Resilience Grant Program provides financial and technical support for innovative local efforts to increase awareness and understanding of climate impacts, plan for changing conditions, redesign vulnerable community facilities and infrastructure and implement non-structural measures to increase natural storm damage protection, flood and erosion control and community resilience. Grants can be used for planning, public outreach and feasibility assessment and analysis of shoreline vulnerability, as well as for design, permitting, construction and monitoring of projects that enhance or create natural resources to provide increased shoreline stabilization and flood control.
The following projects were funded in the Third Plymouth District in this grant round:
Nature-Based Solutions for Community Resilience on North Nantasket Beach, $142,011
The Town of Hull will develop conceptual designs to enhance the resiliency and protective value of the coastal beach and dune system on North Nantasket Beach, including both near-term dune rehabilitation strategies and long-term, large-scale beach and dune nourishment.
Hull Water Pollution Control Facility (WPCF) Electrical Service Relocation, $148,350
The Town of Hull will replace the WPCF’s incoming underground electrical service and transformer with a new overhead service and elevated transformer to account for increased flooding and future sea level rise impacts.
“I am grateful to the Baker-Polito administration and the Office of Coastal Zone Management for considering the needs of the 3rd Plymouth District in this process,” said State Representative Joan Meschino (D-Hull). “As residents of a coastal community, we have experienced firsthand the need for investment in coastal resilience and in further climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives.”
