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Jersey Water Works and EPA Region 2 recently released case studies on three New Jersey communities—Hoboken, Highland Park, and Camden—to spread awareness about green streets and their environmental, public health, social, and economic benefits.

Guest blog post from Kimberley Irby, Policy Analyst at New Jersey Future. Kimberley provides backbone staff support for the JWW CSO Committee.

Guest blog post by Kory Kreiseder, stormwater specialist at The Watershed Institute.

Why is green infrastructure right for your project? Changing rules will make it a central element of stormwater management.

New Jersey Future’s Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit Makes a Splash

On a recent tour of Hoboken’s green infrastructure, sponsored by the SWIM Coalition, participants got a close look at the city’s progress on resilience projects.

The report is a culmination of a year-long partnership with the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to improve access to the program's low-cost green infrastructure financing and continues to move the I-Bank into innovative areas of lending beyond traditional "gray" infrastructure.

Hoboken’s Southwest Park helps control chronic flooding, its design and features received public input on three occasions, and its interpretive signage provides educational opportunities to visitors.

The two rain gardens planted at the foot of the public library can absorb a maximum of approximately 2,800 gallons of water per storm and as much as 38,000 gallons per year based on average rainfall.

New Jersey Future's Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure program addresses the flooding problem in Newton's Memory Park.