NYC's chief climate officer talks Climate Week in the city – Spectrum News NY1

NYC’s chief climate officer talks Climate Week in the city  Spectrum News NY1

Climate Week is underway in New York City following the wettest summer across the five boroughs in five years. The city’s chief climate officer, Louise

Yeung, joined “Inside City Hall” to discuss how the city is investing in ways to handle modern rainfall despite a more than century-old sewage system.

On the program, Yeung addressed the city’s investment in measures designed to handle current rainfall. The focus was the difficulty of managing contemporary precipitation using a sewage system that is more than 100 years old. Her discussion connected the city’s rainfall-related investment efforts with the long-standing infrastructure through which that rainfall must be managed. Climate Week was already underway after the five boroughs experienced their wettest summer in five years.

That recent weather context framed the interview’s attention to rainfall management and the sewer system’s age. The discussion treated the city’s investment and the need to handle modern rainfall as central concerns in the city, with Yeung addressing both the present rainfall challenge and the century-old sewage infrastructure.