October 23, 2019
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) conducted a 60-day technical review of the Development and Evaluation of Alternatives reports submitted in July.  Read the letters that were sent from NJDEP to each of the municipal and utility CSO permit holders. The letters ask permit holders to provide additional information and stress that the public needs to be engaged during the selection and implementation of sewer upgrades. NJDEP recommended that all of the permit holders release draft copies of their Long Term Control Plans to their Supplemental CSO Teams before they are submitted on June 1, 2020.  Read more here
The Sewage-Free Streets and Rivers campaign has released a series of fact sheets on the proposed solutions to CSOs. Fact sheets are currently posted for the following cities: City of Bayonne , Elizabeth , Jersey City, Kearny (new), Harrison (new), Newark (new) City of Paterson , Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (new) , City of Perth Amboy.

If you do not see a fact sheet for your community and want us to create one, please email info@sewagefreenj.org.
Twenty-one New Jersey communities are developing plans to upgrade their century-old combined sewer systems. These upgrades will take decades to build and should serve communities for another hundred years. Thus far, the development of these plans has not required climate change to be taken into consideration. Here are five reasons sewer upgrades should be climate-ready. Read more here.
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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 .
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