Sodus Point's Flood Resilience: A Case Study In Community Strength (March 2024)

Newark, NY, March 11, 2024 - In 2017, Sodus Point saw its first high water year that it had in a long time. As explored in this first video in a 2024 Great Lakes resilience series from New York Sea Grant, Sodus point is the lowest village, elevation wise, on the south shore of Lake Ontario. That's why there was so much attention and why the village had so much difficulty.

"I wish prior to '17 we had been able to have the workshop that we had that Sea Grant put on to evaluate how to best protect the village," said Dave McDowell, Mayor, Village of Sodus Point. "The village, in implementing all of the resiliency projects, it's given a new lease on life for this whole community."

For more, see NYSG's "Coastal Communities Development" resource site, www.nyseagrant.org/ccd (as well as www.nyseagrant.org/waterlevel2017), and "Great Lakes Coastal Processes and Erosion" resource site, www.nyseagrant.org/glcoastal.