February 28, 2019
One meeting not to be missed for residents of Bayonne, East Newark, Guttenberg, Harrison, Jersey City, Kearny, Newark, Paterson, and North Bergen is the Clean Waterways, Healthy Neighborhoods Supplemental CSO Team meeting ! The meeting will take place Thursday, March 7, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM in the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority conference room, on the 17th floor of One Newark Center, 1085 Raymond Blvd. in Newark. Each municipality and utility will be presenting on their evaluation of alternatives. More information .

Newark People’s Assembly is hosting a series of town hall meetings for Newark residents on solving stormwater issues.

Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority is hosting a series of information meetings on the effects of combined sewer systems and to discuss the alternatives being considered. And they launched a page on their website on their Long Term Control Plan where you can submit comments and questions.

Kearny AWAKE, Harrison TIDE and the Town of East Newark have joined forces to host the West Hudson Forum on Sewer Upgrades and Clean Waterways on March 6, 2019, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at Harrison High School.
Green infrastructure (GI) is a technique that is being used to reduce runoff and sewage overflows in communities with combined sewer systems. But what is it? and how does it help? Learn more.
In an opinion piece for the Star-Ledger, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop highlights stormwater management utilities as a key tool to help local government entities, especially those like Jersey City, that are struggling with stormwater-related flooding from combined-sewer systems, to upgrade their stormwater infrastructure. Read the full op-ed.
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Upcoming Events
When: March 6 @ 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Where: Harrison High School, 401 Kingsland Ave.,
Harrison, NJ 07029

Join Harrison TIDE, Kearny AWAKE and East Newark to learn more about the process for upgrading our sewers, the solutions being developed and how you can be involved.
When: March 7 @ 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Where: North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority,
1085 Raymond Blvd., 17th floor, Newark, NJ 07102

Members of the Clean Waterways, Healthy Neighborhoods initiative will be discussing alternatives being evaluated to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in their municipalities.
About This Campaign
Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers is an action-oriented campaign that empowers community organizations to engage residents and small business owners to shape the  solutions  that will be adopted in July 2020 to reduce localized flooding and the raw sewage dumped into our waterways. is organized by its  partners  and an  advisory board , with the support of  New Jersey Future .
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