Resilience Beth Ravit, PhD; Wolfram Hoefer, Dr.-Ing. Co-Directors - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Northern New Jersey Post-Sandy Resilience

Waterfront Conference October 8, 2013 Beth Ravit, PhD; Wolfram Hoefer, Dr.-Ing. Co-Directors

Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES)

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Pre-Sandy: Human Scale

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Pre-Sandy: Human Scale

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Sandy

NOAA 2012

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Northern NJ Coastal Impacts

Damaged Units County Community Homes/Rental Business Total Losses Paid Population Median HH Density Essex Newark 636 10,522 11,158 $137,000,000 277,727 $35,696 11,458 Hudson Kearny 166 1,484 1,650 $81,000,000 41,389 $61,343 4,636 Hudson Hoboken 1954 2,384 4,338 $65,000,000 52,034 $104,789 39,220 Hudson Jersey City 3,019 8,496 11,515 $60,000,000 254,441 $57,520 16,736 Bergen Rutherfords 42 690 732 $45,400,000 8,978 $65,813 2,403 Bergen Little Ferry 2,014 488 2,502 $37,100,000 10,730 $56,792 7,199 Hudson Bayonne 821 2,038 2,859 $21,000,000 64,416 $55,714 10,859 Bergen Lyndhurst 159 1,046 1,205 $20,000,000 20,554 $68,177 4,509 Hudson Secaucus 400 1390 1,790 $9,000,000 18,351 $83,289 2,794 Bergen Fort Lee 7 1,984 1,991 $7,400,000 35,732 $69,911 13,910 Hudson North Bergn Township 72 1,765 1,837 $7,000,000 55,137 $53,216 11,838 Bergen Edgewater 63 578 641 $6,500,000 11,972 $91,554 12,313 Bergen Cliffside Park 12 694 706 $5,200,000 23,872 $68,780 24,501 Hudson Weehawken 296 374 670 $5,000,000 12,554 $62,435 15,764 Bergen Ridgefield Park 311 394 705 $3,700,000 12,864 $68,671 7,388 Hudson West New York/Gutenberg 132 1,752 1,884 $3,100,000 51,464 $44,640 49,363 Hudson Union City 218 2,366 2,584 $2,800,000 67,744 $40,108 51,797 Bergen Moonachie Borough 788 378 1,166 2,708 $53,500 1,626 Total HRE Coastal Communities 11110 38,823 49,933 $516,200,000 1,022,667 16,017 Total New Jersey 8,864,590 $71,180 1,196 % Total State 12% Insurance losses paid as of March 29, 2013 - Source: NJ Department of Banking & Insurance Damaged Units - Source: NJ Department of Consumer Affairs Website - NJ Spotlight: Data accessed 9/17/13

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Post-Sandy Resiliency Challenges

• County’s most densely populated region
• Northern NJ coastline development is contiguous
• NJ land use decisions made predominately at the municipal level
• Visionary resiliency design & planning must integrate existing

conditions and land use regulations

• Regional infrastructure must be protected
• Cost of long-term resiliency cannot be born solely by individual

communities

• Resilience initiatives must occur at municipal, county, regional, State,

and Federal levels

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High Density at Low Elevations

The challenge is to envision resilient transformations at the municipal level which are complementary within the context of a regional hydrologic network containing multiple watershed basins

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Northern NJ Region

Hudson, Raritan, Hackensack, Passaic, Rahway Watersheds

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Ruhr Area

Individual municipalities shaped by industry and infrastructure – like New Jersey

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Emscherpark

Transforming gray into green infrastructure

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Collaboration

Land use designs

• ccur municipal

level Resilience demands the regional level Challenge is collaboration among government entities, reflecting local priorities

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Where to Begin?

NJ Environmental Infrastructure Trust Fund (Hoboken) DCA County Block Grants New Funding Vehicles? Regional, State, Federal?