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MADISON – Like Chef Auguste Gusteau from Dreamworks film “Ratatouille” would say that “anyone can cook,” stormwater expert Chris Obropta says that anyone can build a rain garden in their home.…

Create a stormwater utility. Or else. That’s about the size of it as municipalities wrestle with a vast list of costly state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) requirements. Or, they…

MORRISTOWN – Tina Lindsey remembers riding boats to school during floods. Lindsey, 70, is a lifelong resident of Morristown, specifically of its neighborhood called “The Hollow,” the town’s lowest point in…

Education and collaboration. Those seem the best ways for local officials to fix critical stormwater issues like runoff and flooding, conditions that are only worsening with climate change. They are also…

If you have to get the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) involved, you know you have a serious flooding problem. Denville did just that and a comprehensive plan of…

They don’t produce any school children. They are unlikely to pose any real burden to emergency services, like police, fire and first aid response. They’re largely considered a “low maintenance”…

The Whippany River, like most waterways, doesn’t respect town borders. Part of the greater Passaic River Basin that covers much of northern New Jersey, the 16-mile-long Whippany runs east for…

While it’s true that “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” as that classic Joni Mitchell folk song goes, it’s also true that you don’t know what you’ve…

The Whippany River, like most waterways, doesn’t respect town borders. Part of the greater Passaic River Basin that covers much of northern New Jersey, the 16-mile-long Whippany runs east for…

Stormwater Matters has won an award in the annual Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Press Association. The initial series won first place in the Lloyd P. Burns…