New Jersey’s DEP wrote to the Army Corps asking for money and technical support to repair the worst-hit areas of the shore, including Bay Head, where part of.
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Flood warning along the coast.
New Jersey’s towns and cities must now plan for climate change after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law that requires municipalities to include effects like flooding and higher seas in updates of their master plans.
The law (A-2785/S-2607) puts new demands on local governments to plan for coastal storms, shoreline erosion, bigger storms, flooding, and how they will affect a town’s current and future infrastructure.
Municipalities must now identify critical facilities such as roads and utilities that might be affected by hurricanes or sea-level rise; make plans to sustain normal life in the face of anticipated natural hazards, and integrate climate vulnerability with existing plans such as emergency management or flood-hazard strategies.
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On February 8, 2021, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced a Notice of Rule Waiver/Modification/Suspension, pursuant to Executive Order 103 (which declared a Public Health Emergency and State of Emergency), further extending certain remediation timeframes based on the unprecedented circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic (“Temporary Rule Modification”). Perhaps most significantly, this Temporary Rule Modification grants a one-year extension to the May 2021 Remedial Action timeframe under the Site Remediation Reform Act (“SRRA”).
Notices of Rule Waiver/Modification/Suspension dated April 24, 2020 and August 17, 2020 previously extended certain timeframes for completion of remediation activities set forth in the Administrative Requirements for the Remediation of Contaminated Sites (ARRCS), N.J.A.C. 7:26C, the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation, N.J.A.C. 7:26E, and the Heat
With two winter storms having taken big chunks out of some popular Jersey Shore beaches - and several more on the way - New Jersey wants emergency funding from the federal government to fix the damage.