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
Topic: Community Engagement and Partnerships
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
Get to Know Your Local Waterway Flushing Creek & Flushing Bay
This handout by the S.W.I.M Coalition describes the importance of Flushing Creek & Flushing Bay as a community asset and how to improve its water quality.
Customizable CSO Factsheets
This series of fact sheets is designed for use by residents, local organizations, and anyone else interested in educating the general public on combined sewer overflows and CSO solutions. Our City’s Plumbing Problem and Fixing Our Old Sewers are available in two forms: generic, which can be used in any location, and customizable, which can be… Continue reading Customizable CSO Factsheets
Fixing Flooding in Communities Through Collaboration
Earlier this month, the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority’s green and grey infrastructure projects earned national recognition from the Environmental Council of the States. The national acclaim is a result of a competition for the top three most innovative uses of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) since the fund’s origin in 1987. Projects… Continue reading Fixing Flooding in Communities Through Collaboration
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 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.
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.
Conference Pinpoints Water as Defining Issue for Next Generation
New collaborative introduced; will focus on upgrading water infrastructure. At the inaugural New Jersey Urban Water Conference on Dec. 10, speaker after speaker stressed the importance of water to healthy communities and economic vitality in New Jersey’s cities and towns, and cited numerous examples of how New Jersey’s inadequate water infrastructure threatens to hamper that… Continue reading Conference Pinpoints Water as Defining Issue for Next Generation