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Hoboken NJ Combats Flood Waters With Resiliency Parks
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Route Fifty's website.
The Route Fifty website reports that the City of Hoboken has adopted an innovative approach to dealing with the threat of flooding such as that which overwhelmed its downtown during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, as well as during other heavy rain episodes. Three new resiliency parks will provide recreational opportunities, as well as rain gardens, porous surfaces and an underground network of pipes and tanks that can collect and divert up to 200,000 gallons of stormwater. The system includes a sensor system and pumps that direct water into the Hudson River, and is designed to divert stormwater runoff away from Hoboken’s century-old sewer system.
The first of the parks to open, Southwest Park, a 1-acre urban oasis in downtown, boasts lighted pathways, free wifi, bike share station, playground, restrooms, a dog run, shade trees, a pop-up market zone and a small performance space, as well as the underground water storage tanks. The infrastructure has been tested by extreme rainfall several times already and each time the stormwater mitigation system performed as intended.
Caleb Stratton, the city’s chief resilience officer, told Route Fifty, “It’s not traditional green infrastructure, in that it’s all married with corresponding infrastructure underground.”
Find out more about the park’s design on the Hoboken city website.
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