Hurricane Leads Hoboken Plant to Design, Install Major Improvements

Rain gardens built after Hurricane Sandy help control runoff and provide lessons in green infrastructure for the New Jersey city of Hoboken.
Hurricane Leads Hoboken Plant to Design, Install Major Improvements
The team at the North Hudson Sewerage Authority includes, from left, Phil Reeve, CH2M Hill project manager; Ludmila Bgongoradazi and Guiherme Wecker, Stevens Institute of Technology exchange students from Brazil; Dr. Richard J. Wolff, authority executive director; and Steven Hudock, CH2M Hill client services manager.

Lots of rain and stormwater runoff in a short time can challenge any combined sewer system.

Just ask the operators of the Adams Street Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hoboken, New Jersey, where flooding in parts of the city is common. None was more challenging than the flood...

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