Sustainable Raritan River Symposium 2010

June 4th, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ

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This year's symposium will highlight the numerous projects and efforts throughout the Raritan River Basin to restore the Raritan River to a fishable and swimmable community asset. Across the basin government agencies, business, non-profits and educational institutions continue to cooperate to improve the water quality, public access, and ecological function of the Raritan River and its tributaries.

The conference will close with a special presentation of the Sustainable Raritan River awards for exceptional work in Public Education, Government Innovation, Environmental Stewardship, Public Access, Remediation and Redevelopment as well as Leadership in Sustainability. The award ceremony, held at the renovated Boyd Park, immediately following the afternoon sessions.

Highlights from this year's conference:

• Protecting Source Water in the Upper Raritan
• Status and Challenges of the Lower Raritan
• Brownfields to Greenfields to Keasby, produced by Wild New Jersey/EWA
• Floodplains, Stormwater and the Future Health of the Raritan River
• Raritan Basin County Freeholders Panel on Regional Efforts to Protect Water, Promote Sustainability and Preserve Our Natural Resources

NJ Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin will address the conference as a keynote speaker.

Caroline Ehrlich, Executive Director of Economic Development, Township of Woodbridge, will report on the progress of the Keasby BDA site along the Raritan River and introduce the viewing of Brownfields to Greenfields to Keasby, produced by Wild New Jersey/EWA.

NJ State Climatologist David Robinson will speak on the impacts of climate change on the region.