New Jersey Future hosted the Climate-Ready CSO Solutions Forum in partnership with the Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign and the New Jersey Climate Change Alliance on January 28 in Elizabeth. Approximately 80 community members, engineers, utility directors, environmental advocates, students, and design professionals attended the forum to discuss the importance of the state’s CSO communities incorporating climate change as a critical factor in planned upgrades to wastewater infrastructure systems. Read more.
New Jersey’s oldest cities are saddled with 19th century water and sewer lines and finding even the latest updates may be no match for 21st century climate change. At a forum for 21 communities looking to upgrade combined sewer overflow systems, Correspondent Raven Santana found the prospect costly and contentious. Watch the video.
By Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers advisory board members, Nicole Miller and Mo Kinberg
Some of the biggest infrastructure plans in decades are being finalized in towns across New Jersey, and most affected residents and business owners have no idea this is happening. New Jersey mayors and utility directors in 21 communities with combined sewer systems have only six months to wrap up plans to protect residents from combined-sewer overflows (CSOs). Read more.
Students from Winfield Scott School #2 in Elizabeth learned about combined sewer overflows, as part of a new education and outreach program implemented by Future City Inc., supported by a capacity building grant from the Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign. The program provided 88 students from third, seventh, and eighth grade with Rotary International dictionaries as a vehicle for information about Combined Sewer Systems and the Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign. Students were tasked with completing crossword puzzles with words relating to CSOs. Read more.
This set of two flyer templates is designed for use by residents, local organization, and anyone else interested in educating the general public on combined sewer overflows, flooding and CSO solutions.
Where: Hudson River Foundation, 17 Battery Place NY, NY 10004
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. It is organized by its partners and an advisory board, with the support of New Jersey Future.