Kingston will be putting in new bulkheads on the Rondout Creek, which runs off the Hudson River. This is a very busy area with tourist boats and docking for visitors. I'm glad that they're not waiting for the current bulkheads to collapse. Flooding has been a problem there, so the new ones will be a bit higher.

I've often wondered how they put in the first bulkheads on a river. In Nature, the water gets shallower as it reaches the shore, but with bulkheads, the depth is about the same all the way across. I'm guessing that they build the bulkheads at the shoreline and let the river fill up when they are completed.