NJ Hills Media Group

When the rain really starts falling on the People’s Park neighborhood on the east side of Paterson, Yolanda Mateo says her street looks more like a river. Sewage-contaminated water floods…

While the federal Clean Water Act has been around for half a century, water quality remains a top concern, especially in New Jersey. Whether upstream, downstream, or mid-stream, how healthy…

They have the power to shut down the local economy – and most recreational uses – of the largest lakes in the state. They’re harmful algae blooms, or HABs, and…

In the nation’s most developed state, stormwater often doesn’t drain into the ground as it’s supposed to. Rain that would formerly drain into the soil and porous rock beneath New…

The ground could be bone dry until, one day, a tiny, wet splotch shows from an underground spring. That splotch is followed by another and another and they merge with…