§ 24-504.2 Combined sewer overflow and floatables, including medical debris, study.

   a.   The department shall, within eight months of the effective date of this section, complete an analysis of the combined sewer outfall system and its relationship to floatables, including medical debris, discharged through the system, which are deposited on beaches and other shorelines throughout the city. This analysis shall include, but not be limited to, identifying, evaluating and providing:

      1.   The location of each combined sewer regulator and outfall within the city of New York;

      2.   A list identifying priority combined sewer regulators, specifically indicating those which discharge within five hundred feet of designated bathing areas;

      3.   The general composition and quantity of floatables, including medical debris, that are discharged from the combined sewer system, to be compiled from available data;

      4.   Environmental impacts of floatables, including medical debris, to be compiled from available data;

      5.   The long-term solutions to be advanced to reduce the discharge of floatables, including medical debris, from combined sewer systems onto beaches and shorelines throughout the city, and the costs associated with these efforts;

      6.   A quarterly report about the status of this debris, as evidenced by the city-wide floatables study, which shall include any short-term collection and containment methods discovered, which could be implemented in order to reduce the discharge of floatables from the combined sewer system onto beaches and shorelines throughout the city, and the proposed costs associated with these efforts.

   b.   The commissioner shall, within eight months of the effective date of this section, submit to the council a report on the findings of such analysis and any recommendations as to regulations or legislation necessary to implement the recommendations of the analysis.

§ 24-505 Raising of grade for drainage.

Whenever the commissioner of environmental protection shall determine that it is necessary to raise the grade of any street or streets for the proper sewage of the sewer district in which such street or streets, or parts of streets, are situated, he or she shall prepare a plan showing such proposed change of grade, and shall present the same to the board of estimate and notify the community board for the community district in which the land is located, the office of the appropriate borough president, and the council member, senator and member of assembly representing the district in which the land is located. The board of estimate shall refer such plan to the commissioner of transportation for report. Such board may change the grade of such street or streets, or parts of streets, so far as shall be necessary for the proper drainage thereof, in accordance with such plan, in the manner provided by section one hundred ninety-nine of the charter.

(Am. 2022 N.Y. Laws Ch. 790, 12/28/2022, eff. 6/26/2023; Am. 2023 N.Y. Laws Ch. 98, 3/3/2023, eff. 3/3/2023)

§ 24-506 Temporary sewers.

Whenever it shall become necessary to construct a sewer or drain to prevent damage to property or to abate a nuisance and it is impracticable to proceed immediately to the construction of the same in accordance with any plan already adopted, the commissioner of environmental protection, on the approval of the mayor, may construct a temporary sewer or drain in such manner as to avoid such damage or abate such nuisance.