Stormwater Matters, a collaborative news project on solutions to flooding and stormwater management in northern New Jersey that is managed by the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media, has received a one-year grant from the NJ Civic Information Consortium to continue and expand the work of the collaborative.
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Newark Flooding Project

Photo and captions by Thomas E. Franklin
A boat makes its way underneath one of the bridges over the Hackensack River, near the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers and Newark Bay. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Local Ironbound business owner Manny Lopes says the sidewalk outside his hardware store on Ferry Street often times gets flooded during heavy rain. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Longtime Ironbound resident Tanisha Garner says her neighborhood often times gets flooded during heavy rain, and is opposed to overdevelopment in the neighborhood. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Captain Bill Sheehan, the Hackensack Riverkeeper, operates a pontoon boat tour along the Passaic River, near the confluence of the Hackensack River and Newark Bay. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A gull flies along the riverbanks of the Hackensack river, near the confluence of the Hackensack and Passaic rivers near Newark Bay. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A bird sits perched atop one of the towers in Newark Bay. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Port Newark can be seen through the span of bridges in Newark Bay. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A formation of birds flies over the Passaic Valley Water Commission tanks in Newark Bay (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A span of the New Jersey Turnpike over the Passaic River, near the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in Newark Bay, seen from the Passaic River. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
The City of Newark Skyline, seen from the Passaic River. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Combined sewer overflows (CSO) designed to collect both stormwater and sewage, lead into the Passaic River in Newark. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Combined sewer overflows (CSO) designed to collect both stormwater and sewage, lead into the Passaic River in Newark. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Combined sewer overflows (CSO) designed to collect both stormwater and sewage, lead into the Passaic River in Newark. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Broken river bank supports like these can be seen all along the Passaic River in Newark. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A dead bird floats in the Passaic River near Newark Bay. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
The Newark Riverfront Park along the Passaic river in the Ironbound section. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A cyclist rides on the boardwalk in the Newark Riverfront Park along the Passaic river in the Ironbound section. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
A cyclist rides past two people talking on the boardwalk in the Newark Riverfront Park with the Red Bull Arena seen across he Passaic River in the Ironbound section. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Longtime Ironbound resident John Goldstein says his neighborhood often times gets flooded during heavy rain, and is opposed to overdevelopment in the neighborhood. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
Longtime Ironbound resident Tanisha Garner says her neighborhood often times gets flooded during heavy rain, and is opposed to overdevelopment in the neighborhood. (Photo by Thomas Franklin)
The iconic Pulaski Skyway, which crosses over both the Passaic and the Hackensack rivers near Newark Bay.(Photo by Thomas Franklin)
* BEFORE & AFTER PHOTOS * On left is a photograph taken by Mark Bonamo of flooded on Malvern Street near Adams Street in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood during hurricane Ida in September 2021. The photo on the right was taken by Thomas E Franklin of the same street scene in September 2024. (Photos by Thomas Franklin)
NJ Monitor

Amid Newark building boom, Passaic River flooding poses threat

by Mark Bonamo
NJ Hills Media Group

Climate change, development leave Newark’s Ironbound alarmed about Passaic River flooding

by Mark Bonamo
Podcast

Countdown to 1.5 Episode 5 – ‘Time for Green Infrastructure’

by Esther Paul
NJ Hills Media Group

STORMWATER MATTERS: Lessening the impact of future storms at the forefront in Caldwell, Fairfield

by Claudia Ceva
Podcast

Countdown to 1.5 Episode 4 – ‘Time for Green Infrastructure’

by Esther Paul
Madison Eagle

Madison installs a rain garden, a stormwater management measure anyone can build in their lawns

by Brett Friedensohn

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The NJ Stormwater Matters collaborative includes 18 local news outlets: the 14 papers of the New Jersey Hills Media Group, NewJersey Spotlight News, TapInto Newark, and Public SquareAmplified (PSA); as well as the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.

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About our Reporting & Projects

Supported by the Solutions Journalism Network, this project seeks to advance the conversation on stormwater management by exploring solutions both in New Jersey and in other communities.

 

We welcome your engagement! You can comment on any of the stories, or send us a message in the feedback box. We will be hosting a variety of in person and virtual events to talk further about the work. 

Around the Web

Links to stormwater reporting from around the web.

VIDEO: New Jersey’s climate future: The science, politics and planning
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Climate change advocacy at the global and local levels: Q&A with Anthony Diaz of the Newark Water Coalition
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‘Not in our neighborhood’ – Newark residents’ fight for clean air and water
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NJ still seeking support for emergency flood rule
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How will NJ manage stormwater as climate changes, flooding increases?
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Bigger storms, floods but towns hold off on stormwater utilities
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Stormwater panelists answer questions
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‘Lives at stake:’ Water watchdogs combine to push adoption of new flood, stormwater rules
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EDITORIAL: Adopt the rules
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