Special Infrastructure Week Edition!
Make Your Voice Heard During #InfrastructureWeek! Come to a Meeting on Infrastructure That Will Keep Poop Out of Our Rivers
Infrastructure Week is almost here! This is a national week of events, from May 13 to May 20, that highlight the need to invest in all kinds of infrastructure.

If you live, work, or run a business in a community with a combined sewer system, you know that one of the must urgent infrastructure investment priorities has to be our sewer systems. Municipalities and utilities must develop plans to reduce the combined sewer overflows (CSOs) that occur during heavy rainfall and discharge raw sewage into our neighborhoods and waterways.

Alternative approaches to address CSOs are being evaluated based on cost and performance, and the Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign is asking that benefits to communities be included as part of the evaluation. Your input in needed now, since the Evaluation of Alternatives report is due to the state Department of Environmental Protection by July 1.

Have you made your voice heard about which alternatives you want to see included in this evaluation? Have you been able to advocate for solutions that provide local jobs, improve the health of people in your community, and address the challenges of a changing climate? Now is your chance! Municipal groups like the Bayonne Supplemental CSO Team and regional groups like Bergen County CSO Group and North Hudson Sewerage Authority are all meeting during or just after Infrastructure Week, and all of these meetings are open to the public. Find a meeting close to you, and have a say in your local stormwater infrastructure investments! 




  • May 28, 5:00 pm in Bayonne: Clean Waterways, Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative meeting, for stakeholders in the City of Bayonne, Borough of East Newark, Town of Guttenberg, Town of Harrison, Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority, Town of Kearny, City of Newark, City of Paterson, North Bergen Municipal Utilities Authority and Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission.

Please stay tuned for confirmation of the Perth Amboy CSO Supplemental Team meeting , which will be either May 16 or 23 at 7:00 pm . For more information please contact Luis Perez Jimenez at Middlesex Water Company.
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Other Infrastructure Week Events
When: May 14 @ 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Where: Evesham Library, 984 Tuckerton Rd., Evesham

New Jersey Future and Pinelands Preservation Alliance invite you to participate in a workshop teaching communities all about New Jersey Future's New Jersey Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit.
When: May 16 @ 10:00 am to noon
Where: North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), 1085 Raymond Blvd., 17th Floor, Newark

A seminar to walk attendees through the Applicant’s Guide and provide new information regarding rules and guidance on stormwater management.
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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