3rd Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference

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Workshops

Managing Environmental Liabilities Through Redevelopment– Legal and Planning Issues

• Managing Environmental Liabilities through Redevelopment –the Role of Insurance as a Risk Management Tool
  Jayne Cunningham, CPCU, ARM, Beazley Group

Pollution Prevention/Energy Efficiency and Green Business – Managing for Economic Growth

Restoration of Our Natural Resources – Land Management for Ecological and Economic Growth

• Shallow Water Habitat Restoration in an Urbanized Estuary
  Beth Ravit, PhD, Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability
• Wetland & Bio-Diversity Banking Potential Benefits in the Raritan River Watershed
  Brett Berkley, Sr. Vice President, PWS

New Jersey's Natural Resource Damages Program and Dam Removal - Perfect Together

• Ecological Benefits of Dam Removal as a Means for Settling Natural Resource Damage (NRD) Liability
  David Bean, NJDEP
• Planning & Permitting for Historical Dam Removals to Restore Fish Passage in the Raritan River, New Jersey
  John W. Jengo, MWH Americas, Inc.
• Raritan River Migratory Fish Passage Initiative
  Carl Alderson, NOAA

Protecting the Raritan River: Water Quality and the Availability of Data

• Mercury in the Raritan: from Watershed to River
  John Reinfelder, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
• Sources and Sinks of the Raritan River
  Bob Chant, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
•  Raritan River data Availability: Nutrients and Organics
  Lisa Rodenburg, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Sustaining Heritage: The Role of Cultural and Recreational Assets for Economic Growth

• Sustaining Heritage: The role of cultural and Recreational Assets for Economic Growth | Speech | Presentation Notes
  Joan Furlong, American Society of Landscape Architects
• Sustainable Raritan RiverHeritage, Storytelling, Stewardship and Conservation
  David Lange, Rivers and Trails Program, National Park Service
• Bound Brook: Downtown Urban Design Plan | Map
  Carlos Rodrigues, PP/AICP, Rodrigues Urban Design
• Crossroads of American Revolution
  Kevin Tremble, New Jersey Historical Commisson

Addressing Natural Resource Damages in Development- Legal and Planning issues

• Former National Lead Sites, Sayreville, NJ
    Jonathan Spergel, Esq; Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP
• Environmental Compliance with Waterfront Property Redevelopment
    Neil Yoskin, Esq;  Sokol, Behot & Fiorenzo

Economic Benefits of Brownfield Redevelopment and Restoration Ecology

Defining the Raritan River Watershed Greenway at the Landscape and Local Level

• Defining a Raritan River Watershed Greenway: Landscape Level/Local Level: Somerset County Raritan River Greenway Initiative
  Thomas Boccino, PP, LLA, Principal Planner, Land Acquisition, Engineering Division County of Somerset, NJ
• Defining the Raritan Watershed Greenway at the Landscape and Local Level
  Dana Patterson, Edison Wetlands Association
• Middlesex County Open Space and Recreation Plan
  Rick Lear, Middlesex County Parks and Recreation

Building a Green Infrastructure – Economic Benefits of New Strategies

• Urban Rain Gardens
  Christopher C. Obropta, Ph.D., P.E., Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program
• The Benefits of Permeable Pavement
  Amy Rowe, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex/Passaic Counties
• Harvesting the Rain
  Bill Hoffman, The Rain Harvest Co., LLC

Raritan Water Quality and Controlling Contamination –Total Maximum Daily Loads

• Controlling Contaminants in Somerset County Waters
  Anthony V. McCracken Sr. AICP/PP, Asst. Director of County Planning, County of Somerset, NJ

• Raritan Nutrient TMDL -What Does it Mean to the Local Municipality
  Kimberly Cenno, NJDEP
• Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority
  Glen Petrauski, Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority
• Source Water Protection in the Raritan Basin
  Kathy Hale, NJ Water Supply Authority