The Jersey Water Works Green Infrastructure Committee has released recommendations for designing new parks and public spaces with green infrastructure to manage stormwater. Green infrastructure features allow parks and public spaces to manage stormwater, control flooding, and improve water quality in ways that complement and can even enhance their other functions. Green infrastructure features can be… Continue reading New Guidance: Designing Parks and Public Spaces with Green Infrastructure
Working Together to Upgrade New Jersey’s Water Infrastructure
On July 25, 2016, 90 people met at New Jersey City University to talk about water. Not an ordinary meeting, it was the inaugural membership congregation of a cross-sector collaborative called Jersey Water Works – the latest milestone in more than two years of work by organizations to build a coalition to address the Garden… Continue reading Working Together to Upgrade New Jersey’s Water Infrastructure
Lead Found in School Drinking Water Across New Jersey
Online sources show 137 public schools in New Jersey have tested positive for lead in at least one drinking water outlet this year. Lead in drinking water is a serious concern that has come to the public’s attention recently with the crisis in Flint, Michigan, and subsequent discoveries of lead contamination in other cities around… Continue reading Lead Found in School Drinking Water Across New Jersey
Lead in New Jersey’s Drinking Water Calls for Awareness, Education and Investment
Jersey Water Works Collaborative Provides On-line Resource for New Jersey Citizens Special Statement from Jersey Water Works Steering Committee Most Americans take for granted that they can drink water safely straight from the tap, whether in our homes, at school or in public facilities. Unfortunately, as the public health crisis in Flint, Michigan demonstrates this… Continue reading Lead in New Jersey’s Drinking Water Calls for Awareness, Education and Investment
Ten Great Ideas for New Jersey’s Water Infrastructure
New Jersey Delegation Gathers National Best Practices from One Water Summit Innovative ways to integrate water management, reduce costs, partner and build broad public support were all on tap at the U.S. Water Alliance’s second annual One Water Summit, on June 8-10 in Atlanta. Through coordination by Jersey Water Works, the cross-sector collaborative focused on… Continue reading Ten Great Ideas for New Jersey’s Water Infrastructure
Protecting Drinking Water by Becoming Climate Ready
From Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Homer, Alaska, drinking water and wastewater utilities across the country are working with EPA to prepare for climate change. These forward-thinking utilities are following the science that shows climate change brings increased water shortages in some parts of the country, while other areas grapple with increased stormwater runoff, flooding, and… Continue reading Protecting Drinking Water by Becoming Climate Ready
Vital Public Notice of Sewage in New Jersey Waters, Just in Time for Summer
UPDATE June 30: Several operators of combined-sewer systems in New Jersey are now participating as the NJ CSO Group in the Combined Sewer Overflow Notification website: http://njcso.hdrgateway.com/ This is a web application that notifies the public of the possibility of a combined-sewer overflow at any of the outfall locations in the municipality via an online… Continue reading Vital Public Notice of Sewage in New Jersey Waters, Just in Time for Summer
Three New Jersey Cities Selected To Accelerate Water Infrastructure Innovation
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?