Items Tagged with 'New Jersey floods'

Under new Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D), the Resilient Environments and Landscapes rule (REAL) now has one-year reprieve from July 20 before it mandates higher shorebuilding elevations and other requirements for high-risk area—giving pro and con forces more time to battle over likely amendments. 

A $148M coastal flood wall proposed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and mostly federally funded remains uncertain weeks after voters rejected it.

Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.

The lack of 'buy-in' on a plan led to the Corps of Engineers to terminate its flood study.