Applications now open for the 2023 Utzinger-Vellekamp Scholarship
Hackensack Riverkeeper, the citizen-steward of the Hackensack River Watershed, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for the 2023
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Hackensack Riverkeeper, the citizen-steward of the Hackensack River Watershed, is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for the 2023
The agency settled with 85 firms responsible for PCBs, dioxin and other pollution in the riverbed. Work will cover 17 miles from Newark to Garfield.
Some residents rebuilt, elevating homes. Some left and never returned. New flood defenses have been installed. But storm surge remains a risk.
EPA officials have called an end to the groundwater cleanup at the Universal Oil Products site in East Rutherford. A final cleanup phase remains.
The plan calls for a 1,900-foot-long floodgate across the Hackensack River. Other proposed structures would protect New York Harbor.