This presentation, by University of North Carolina Environmental Finance Center director Jeff Hughes, provides a simple, comprehensive overview of the primary ways water infrastructure is financed, and also highlights some recent innovative approaches. 2014.
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An Agenda For Change
This white paper from New Jersey Future summarizes the outcome of a 2014 gathering on water infrastructure, including guiding principles for improving urban water infrastructure, drivers for action and a set of action steps to stimulate progress.
Growing Pains: A Burgeoning Jersey City Contends With Aging Water Infrastructure
This 2014 Case Study highlights the prescient investment in water infrastructure that Jersey City made in the 1970s that is allowing its booming growth today.
Camden: Rising above the Floodwaters
This 2014 Case Study describes the effects on Camden of its inadequate water infrastructure conditions, including increasing vulnerability to flooding
The Steps Hoboken Is Taking to Reshape Development Amidst Rising Sea Levels
This 2014 case study gives context to flooding in Hoboken and steps the city is taking to reshape development and mitigate growing flood risks.
The Power of the Passaic: Paterson’s Birth and Rebirth Along the River
This 2014 case study illustrates how water infrastructure serves to improve or impair the quality of life in Paterson.
Hoboken Block 12 SW Park Design – Concept
These 2014 design concepts illustrate options for a proposed park in Southwest Hoboken that will provide recreational amenities and manage stormwater.
Hoboken Emnet Sewer Monitoring Study 2011 Final Report
This report provides an analysis of the data collected by the city of Hoboken’s extensive sewer monitoring system. 2011.
Historic Water: Re-imaging Hobokens Engineered Landscape
This report explores different stormwater interventions within an open-space network that incorporates stormwater infrastructure and the landscape. New Jersey Future. 2013.
Mixed Use Water Infrastructure | Hoboken, New Jersey
This Spring 2012 report presents potential green and gray infrastructure design strategies developed to determine the appropriate combinations of green and grey infrastructure based upon cost, social impact, and magnitude of desired flood prevention for the City of Hoboken.