Wednesday, May 9 7:00PMWallace Elementary School Cafeteria 1100 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, NJ 07030 The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) invites the communities of Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken to a Public Meeting on the Rebuild by Design – Hudson River Project. Learn more here>>
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News 12 New Jersey: A massive construction project aims at keeping Hoboken safe as sea levels rise amid the effects of climate change. The federal government’s Rebuild by Design program is set to fund a $230 million flood resiliency project. It will protect the Hoboken waterfront and parts of Weehawken and Jersey City. Flood structures
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NJ Business Magazine: Gov. Phil Murphy announced a critical step forward for a flood-resistant system to protect Hoboken and parts of Weehawken and Jersey City from flooding that often accompanies storms and other weather events. The final alignment of the project –funded by the federal government’s Rebuild By Design project—will be constructed along Weehawken Cove
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InsiderNJ: Governor Phil Murphy today announced a critical step forward for a flood-resistant system to protect Hoboken and parts of Weehawken and Jersey City from flooding that often accompanies storms and other weather events. The final alignment of the project –funded by the federal government’s Rebuild By Design project—will be constructed along Weehawken Cove to
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The State of New Jersey decided that the most cost-effective way to reduce flood risk in southern Hoboken is to build an intervention structure midway between a rail yard and major thoroughfare, the locations of two earlier contested options. The governor, Department of Environmental Protection, and city agreed that the new “middle ground” alignment will
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LI Herald: The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery hosted an environmental review hearing at the Rockville Centre Public Library last week on a proposed $35 million project to rejuvenate Hempstead Lake State Park. The project seeks to restore the 521-acre park’s northwest and northeast ponds and to create new areas for treating storm-water runoff and
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Curbed NY: Hurricane Sandy, which happened six years ago this week, notably exposed the dire need to improve New York’s infrastructure so that it can stand up to the increasing threat posed by sea level rise. In the years since the storm, city and state agencies have put many different resiliency efforts into place with
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Thursday, October 25, 20187:00 p.m. – 9 p.m. Stevens Institute of Technology Bissinger Room, 4th Floor Wesley J. Howe Center1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ 07030 Join the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for an Open House Event on the Rebuild by Design – Hudson River Project. This event will highlight design process materials focused
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John Hopkins University: If libraries didn’t yet exist, the concept wouldn’t stand a chance of getting off the ground in today’s America, suggests sociologist Eric Klinenberg. Imagine a group presenting that idea to a modern Congress: Vast offerings of books, knowledge, and programming, free to all without restriction simply “because you’re a human being,” Klinenberg said. They
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northjersey: Last week, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the results of his audit of NJ Transit. The audit, he said, found a “lack of critical future-focused strategic planning” and found funding to be “inadequate, uncertain, and unsustainable,” among other major failings. But – in addition to the problems – the audit also began to outline possible solutions.
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