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Perth Amboy Brownfield to Become Raritan Riverside Park
A 6-acre former brownfield on the Raritan River in Perth Amboy is being converted into the new 2nd Street Park. The site, previously Harry S. Goldberg and Sons Scrap Metal Recycling property, was acquired by the City of Perth Amboy in 2003. The property contained hazardous materials including, chlorinated volatile organic compounds (VOCs), polycyclic...
Water Quality Restoration Grants Targeted to Raritan – Application Deadline May 4
The Christie Administration is seeking applications from nonprofit groups, government agencies, and state colleges and universities for grants funding projects that help improve water quality in New Jersey. The DEP is making up to $10.4 million available under its Water Quality Restoration Grants Program. The money is available for watershed restoration...
Rutgers Bike Share Studio Connects Biking in Raritan Communities and Health
The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy's Fall 2016 Graduate Studio program offered a course that advanced the goals of Healthier New Brunswick, a network of partners in the City of New Brunswick that are working together to ensure that all residents have equal access to the services and conditions that allow for good health and well-being,...
State of the Raritan Report, Volume 1
The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) produced Volume 1 of the State of the Raritan Report (Lathrop et al. 2016) to identify trends in key indicators of water quality and watershed health for the Raritan River basin that were originally assessed in the Raritan Basin: Portrait of a Watershed as developed by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority...
Sign up to learn NJDEP water quality sampling methods aboard the R/V Rutgers
Learn water quality sampling methods according to NJDEP protocols aboard the R/V Rutgers. Join Josh Kohut, PhD (Dept. Marine & Coastal Sciences, RU-SEBS), and Robert Schuster (NJDEP Marine Water Monitoring Bureau), for a hands-on introduction to NJDEP Sampling and Quality Control Standards in the Raritan River. The overall goal of this project is to...
Rutgers/Raritan Mini-grants Awarded
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium has awarded five minigrants to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues. All five mini-grants involve partnerships with Raritan stakeholders. The five recipients and their projects are: Nicole Fahrenfeld, PhD (Dept. Civil &...
Sustainable Raritan River Initiative
Rutgers launched the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) in 2009 to convene scientists, engineers, business and community leaders, environmental advocates and governmental advocates and governmental entities to craft an agenda for the restoration and preservation of new Jersey's Raritan River, its tributaries and bay. A joint program of the Edward...
Rutgers 2030 Master Plan Seeks to Improve Campus Connectivity and Open Space Access
Rutgers New Brunswick has the largest university housing and transit systems and at 2,700 acres, one of the largest college campuses in the United States. In its 2030 Master Plan, Rutgers proposes improvements to transportation, housing, open space and facilities that will promote a greater level of cohesion between campuses and a stronger relationship...
Rutgers Raritan River Consortium Summary
2016 Sustainable Raritan Award Recipients
Eight individuals and organizations received Sustainable Raritan River Awards at the 8th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony at Rutgers’ Douglass Student Center on Friday, June 10, 2016. "The purpose of these awards is to recognize some of the more creative and impressive accomplishments by genuine leaders throughout the Raritan...
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Plan4Health: Partnering Across Sectors
Hartig, E., Senick, J., Peterson, J., Missy, D. Plan4Health: Partnering Across Sectors. American Planning Association 2016 National Planning Conference, Phoenix, April 2, 2016.
Change of Occupancy Building Code Change Proposal
Senick, J., Hattis, D., Andrews, C., Listokin, D. and Souder, J. Change of Occupancy Building Code Change Proposal: National Energy Codes Conference, US Department of Energy, 2016, Tucson, AZ.
Hometown Dashboard: Smart Cities Technologies for Improving Quality of Life-Highland Park, NJ
Co-Creation of New Jersey’s 1st Health and Food Systems Municipal Master Plan Element
Senick, J. Co-Creation of New Jersey’s 1st Health and Food Systems Municipal Master Plan Element. PLAN4Health APA Baltimore Regional Meeting, June 22, 2016