Gloucester City, Jersey City, and Perth Amboy will receive technical assistance and engineering support services to design innovative, financeable projects that reduce combined sewer outflows (CSOs) while also making neighborhoods and downtowns better places to live, work, and invest. New Jersey Future today announced that three cities – Gloucester City, Jersey City, and Perth Amboy… Continue reading Three New Jersey Cities Selected To Accelerate Water Infrastructure Innovation
Chipping Away: Water Infrastructure Improvements Improve Health, Safety & Quality of Life
Visible infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, the power grid, and even broadband, are vital to our everyday life and support our health, safety, and the economy. Just as vital, if not more so, is the less obvious water infrastructure, such as the pipes underground that provide us with drinking water and the… Continue reading Chipping Away: Water Infrastructure Improvements Improve Health, Safety & Quality of Life
Signs of Spring?
You may have seen a new sign out on your local waterfront lately. Thanks in part to our litigation with Hackensack Riverkeeper against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), each combined sewer outfall in New Jersey now has to be labeled with a sign that faces both the land and the water. These… Continue reading Signs of Spring?
The State of Water in Our State
Many people took notice when the town of Flint, MI, declared a state of emergency after contaminated drinking water caused elevated levels of lead in 5 percent of the city’s children. More recently, and closer to home, there were elevated levels of lead found in school water fountains in Newark, Paterson, Pascack Valley and Leonia,… Continue reading The State of Water in Our State
Jersey Water Works Releases 2016 Workplan
Jersey Water Works, the cross-sector collaborative formed to address the problems of New Jersey’s aging urban water infrastructure, today released its workplan for 2016. Among the 2016 workplan’s key items are: Facilitating the inclusion of best practices in water infrastructure management into municipal sustainability efforts, in order to minimize flooding and water loss and maximize… Continue reading Jersey Water Works Releases 2016 Workplan
Dodge Partners with New Jersey Health Initiatives to Support Build It Green Competition
Posted with permission from Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation BIG Competition Aims to Spark Innovative Stormwater Management Solutions in New Jersey Communities The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and New Jersey Health Initiatives recently awarded $165,000 in matching grants to New Jersey Future in support of the new Build It Green Competition, a design challenge to help New… Continue reading Dodge Partners with New Jersey Health Initiatives to Support Build It Green Competition
Greatest Danger Facing NJ’s Water Infrastructure: The Unknown
Lead in water in public schools. Potentially harmful contaminants found in drinking water, without suitable standards to act on. An aging infrastructure leaking water before it ever gets to consumers. There is no shortage of issues facing policymakers charged with overseeing proper management of New Jersey’s drinking water, but in this age of information, maybe… Continue reading Greatest Danger Facing NJ’s Water Infrastructure: The Unknown
Forum Roundup: Cities, Redevelopers Join Forces To Tackle Floodproofing, Sewer Upgrades
Cities are engaging redevelopers in a number of ways to meet the challenge of flooding, aging infrastructure and climate change, as described at New Jersey Future’s Redevelopment Forum session on Rebuilding Water Infrastructure, One Redevelopment Project at a Time. Speakers from Hackensack, Hoboken and Gloucester City described how they are shaping redevelopment plans, redevelopment agreements… Continue reading Forum Roundup: Cities, Redevelopers Join Forces To Tackle Floodproofing, Sewer Upgrades
From River to Tap: How Your Water is Cleaned and Delivered
With the Flint water crisis in the national spotlight and now Newark, many communities in New Jersey have a renewed focus on their water supply. When you turn on the water to take a shower, do you ever think about where your water comes from? The EPA estimates that we use between 80 and 100… Continue reading From River to Tap: How Your Water is Cleaned and Delivered
Green Infrastructure Taking Off in Paterson
Paterson SMART provides forum for coordination The City of Paterson, or Silk City, is not only one of New Jersey’s most densely populated cities but also home to 24 of 212 combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in New Jersey. These combined sewer overflows can be overwhelmed during heavy rain events, dumping raw sewage into the Passaic… Continue reading Green Infrastructure Taking Off in Paterson