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
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.
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.