This document presents industry-accepted standards that a well-run utility uses to operate and maintain its combined sewer system, separate sanitary sewer system, and separate stormwater system. Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority. 2014.
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Charting New Waters: Developing an Agenda for Change for New Jersey’s Urban Water Infrastructure
This report provides The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread’s comprehensive description of the 2014 convening that spawned the Agenda for Change and synthesizes the broader range of information, insights and ideas shared during the convening.
New Jersey’s Combined Sewer Systems By the Numbers
This fact sheet frames the CSO issue in New Jersey by providing a host of facts about combined sewer systems, including their discharges, demographic and other information on their host municipalities and regional sewer utilities, and CSO solutions. A map is included. New Jersey Future. 2015.
New Jersey’s Combined Sewer Systems Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides an overview of the CSO issue in New Jersey, by describing the problem, new regulatory requirement, and potential solutions. New Jersey Future. 2015.
Hoboken City Hall Sustainable Stormwater Demonstration Project Concept Plan
This 2013 plan demonstrates how to capture stormwater runoff from Hoboken’s City Hall by using green and gray infrastructure. City of Hoboken.
Roxanne Qualls, former Mayor of Cincinnati, on Cincinnati’s Water Infrastructure
This presentation by Roxanne Qualls, former Mayor of Cincinnati, describes metropolitan Cincinnati’s holistic approach to drinking water, wastewater and stormwater including its successful programs to resolve combined sewer overflows. 2014.
Stormwater Utilities: A Funding Solution for New Jersey’s Stormwater Problems
This intern report provides an introduction to, and description of, stormwater utilities as a tool to manage stormwater in New Jersey more effectively. 2014.
Can We Depend on Our Water Infrastructure?
This article by Daniel J. Van Abs of Rutgers University and Chris Sturm of New Jersey Future, which appeared in NJ Municipalities Magazine, makes recommendations on addressing New Jersey’s water infrastructure by evaluating the needs and costs of fixing the state’s water infrastructure.