Hoboken, NJ: Resiliency Presentation and Bike Tour

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 from 9:30 am to 12:45 pm

Location: Hoboken City Hall, 94 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ 07030

• 9:15 am: Meet at City Hall. Lock your bike outside and enter on Newark Street side. 
• 9:30 am: "Post-Sandy" presentation in Conference Room with Mayor Dawn Zimmer and others
• 10:15 am - 12:45 pm: 5-mile bike tour with stops at City Hall and 4 project sites
  • Speakers: Jennifer S. Gonzalez, Chief Sustainability Officer and Caleb D. Stratton, Chief Resiliency Officer

Bring your bike, helmet, water, and bike lock. For additional fee, bikes are available to rent through Hudson Bike Share. Please download the app and register for a bike in advance of the event.

Tickets: event cost is $10; choose either a bike ticket or van option for those who don't wish to bike. Space is limited. Register here. Tour will go, rain or shine. Please purchase van tickets by Friday, Sept. 8 to ensure your seat.

Directions: Hoboken City Hall is a 5-minute walk from the ferry from Manhattan, NJ Transit trains, and PATH trains:

• NY Waterway Ferry to Hoboken from midtown Manhattan/W. 39th St departs 8:10 am & 8:30 am., $9 one-way + $1.25 bike surcharge), 

• PATH train from Newark, Jersey City, or Manhattan (33rd St. & World Trade Center), $2.75 one-way, no bikes during rush hour 

• Hoboken/NJ Transit trains from western and northern NJ

Questions: Call Jessica Giorgianni, 201.420.2000, ext. 3002, or Mary Beth Powell, 919.260.3967

More information about Hoboken's resiliency and stormwater management efforts: 

• A combination of factors makes stormwater management challenging for Hoboken: much of the City is located in low lying flood zones (some below sea level); the ground surface is largely impervious (with buildings, pavement, and concrete); and both stormwater and wastewater drain into the same “CSO” (combined sewer overflow) system, portions of which are more than one hundred years old.
• Even moderate rainfall events often exceed the holding capacity of the Hoboken’s aging sewer system, resulting in localized inland flooding, sewer backups and combined sewer overflows into the Hudson River. At the same time, Hoboken’s location along the Hudson River makes the City vulnerable to sea level rise, and very high waters (“storm surge”) generated by severe storms such as tropical storms, hurricanes, and nor’easters.
• To reduce the occurrence of flooding from both rainfall and coastal events, and protect the City from future storm surge, Hoboken has adopted a four-part water management strategy: Resist, Delay, Store, and Discharge. From planned coastal barriers (“resist”) to the new resiliency parks and green infrastructure techniques now under construction (“delay, store, discharge”), the 5-mile bike tour will showcase Hoboken’s aggressive response to this very complex problem.

• Tour Map & Brochure

Partner: City of Hoboken

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