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Mon June 14, 2021 - Northeast Edition
Staten Island Advance/SILive.com
Sandbags meant to protect Tottenville s coastal neighborhoods are shown to be in disrepair on June 2, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Paul Liotta)
A project intended to protect Staten Island s South Shore coastal communities has been given the go ahead to begin construction this fall after years of delays.
The state-run rejuvenation of the area, known as Living Breakwaters, was funded and set to begin construction in 2018, according to a 2017 report from the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com, but the project laid dormant after that.
A spokesperson of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR), which is overseeing the project, emailed a statement to the Staten Island news outlet announcing that the agency had executed a contract with Weeks Marine, based in Cranford, N.J., and that it expected the project to be complete by 2024. ....

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