New Jersey Wastewater Utility Puts Community First

In 2011, the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority helped build a rain garden on a former “brownfield” parcel of land where an abandoned gas station once stood in the disadvantaged Waterfront South neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey. The work was performed under the auspices of a group the utility formed called the Camden SMART Initiative, or Stormwater Management and Resource Training, a collaboration between the city, the utility and other public and private groups and agencies. The organizations were united around a common goal: Build “green” stormwater infrastructure projects that would help remediate the effects of urbanization on the area’s waterways.Within