Ensuring sound drinking water systems is one of Jersey Water Works’ goals. Through the priorities outlined in the “Our Water Transformed” report, the collaborative has focused on incentivising and requiring asset management programs, ensuring adequate funding for capital investment, and greater public support. The Water Quality Accountability Act (WQAA), enacted in 2017, is a tool… Continue reading How can the Water Quality Accountability Act (WQAA) become a national model for achieving excellent water infrastructure?
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Build streets for everyone with this new model policy
Many streets act as barriers. Cars speed through multiple lanes, endangering pedestrians and bicyclists. Wide expanses of asphalt — often with inadequate sidewalks — mar downtowns and discourage foot traffic. Paved roads prevent rainwater from soaking into the ground, resulting in stormwater runoff that pollutes waterways. But we can design our landscape differently. Streets can… Continue reading Build streets for everyone with this new model policy
Fight flooding and pollution with the updated Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit
Have you seen the award-winning Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit? The Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit is perfect for community leaders who want to manage stormwater sustainably, reduce localized flooding, and improve water quality. When NJDEP adopts stormwater rule amendments later this year that require the use of green infrastructure, the Toolkit will be an especially valuable… Continue reading Fight flooding and pollution with the updated Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit
Like learning to talk again: Jersey Water Works Membership Meeting Highlights
Jersey Water Works is a collaborative: many people with many perspectives coming together around a central goal of improving our state’s water infrastructure for all New Jerseyans. It was especially fitting that over 100 Jersey Water Works members attended the collaborative’s fourth annual membership meeting in Camden, NJ — a city that embodies the same… Continue reading Like learning to talk again: Jersey Water Works Membership Meeting Highlights
Manny Teodoro Writes About the Water Quality Accountability Act
Manny Teodoro, Texas A&M Associate Professor, writes an opinion piece on the Water Quality Accountability Act (WQAA). In the post, he discusses how the WQAA may provoke fear from those who don’t want to be responsible for, or pay for, water rate increases, but has the ability to “transform the politics of drinking water.” He… Continue reading Manny Teodoro Writes About the Water Quality Accountability Act
Reports on Potential Solutions from CSO Permit Holders Require Local Input
The statewide coalition comprises a number of JWW member organizations and it helps to advance the collaborative’s shared goals. For more information, please visit the Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign website. All of the Development and Evaluation of Alternatives reports that were submitted to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) on July 1, 2019 have been… Continue reading Reports on Potential Solutions from CSO Permit Holders Require Local Input
Trenton’s Plan to Make Clean, Safe Water a Priority
Guest blog from For the Times of Trenton detailing the water infrastructure improvement projects Trenton Water Works plans on implementing over the next several years.
How Water Investments Drive New Jersey’s Economy
Water infrastructure drives New Jersey’s economy; however, deferred maintenance and inadequate levels of investment are putting the state’s prosperity and future at risk. Until recently, the total economic impact in terms of jobs and dollars spent was not well understood, so today, the first day of Infrastructure Week, a national annual campaign, five statewide water… Continue reading How Water Investments Drive New Jersey’s Economy
A Call to Action: We Can Take Back the Tap, One Municipality at a Time!
Older cities and towns throughout New Jersey and the nation are facing a public health crisis – lead in drinking water. The most common source of lead in tap water is from the lead service line (LSL, curb to the home), lead solder at pipe joints and faucets. The most protective remedy is to fully… Continue reading A Call to Action: We Can Take Back the Tap, One Municipality at a Time!
At Convention, Builders Take Interest in Green Infrastructure
Why does green infrastructure make good business sense in private-sector projects? Two experts explain why in a new video produced by New Jersey Future. George Vallone, founder and chief executive officer of Hoboken Brownstone Company, and Jeromie Lange, engineer and senior principal at Maser Consulting, make several convincing arguments about the business sense and overall return on… Continue reading At Convention, Builders Take Interest in Green Infrastructure