Pocomoke City’s Mayor, Council, staff, and a Community Advisory Committee met on May 26, 2026 for a NOAA ESLR Flood and Resilience Assessment work session focused on understanding project goals, findings, and proposed resilience pathways. Representatives from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and facilitators formerly with The Nature Conservancy presented an overview of assessment results, project deliverables, and draft resilience pathways, and led a structured ranking and feedback exercise. The meeting purpose was to prioritize resilience pathways and provide feedback for the project team to refine final recommendations and an updated story map, which will guide future flood and resilience efforts in the city. No specific procurements or vendors have been selected yet; the work is at the strategy and prioritization stage that will shape subsequent projects, engineering designs, and implementation contracts. This is a commercially relevant moment for firms offering flood modeling, resilience planning, nature-based infrastructure, grant-writing, and implementation services to align with the pathways being finalized. A useful next conversation would explore how the city plans to move from recommended pathways into funded design and construction projects, and what support is needed for grant applications and capital planning.

The project is part of NOAA’s Effects of Sea Level Rise (ESLR) program and is producing an assessmen...