Stormwater Stories

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.…

Julia Somers, Executive Director of the New Jersey Highlands Coalition, breaks down the basics of stormwater—what it is, why it matters, and how it impacts our drinking water. She explains…

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…

Roaring through 45 municipalities in northern and central New Jersey, the Passaic River, at 80 miles long, is only the 5th longest river in the state. One of its most…

New Jersey’s efforts to manage increasing volumes of stormwater took an important step forward last month when New Brunswick become the first municipality to launch a “stormwater utility,” a new…

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…

Johnson Park en Piscataway podría defenderse de las inundaciones si se adoptaran las medidas de resiliencia recomendadas en un nuevo manual para municipios de la Universidad de Rutgers, dicen sus…

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…

At the corner of Weber Avenue and Loniewski Street in Sayreville, empty brown lots sit between a quiet former residential street and a line of phragmites-choked wetland bordering the South…

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…