Workshops for Rebuild by Design project to take place in Hoboken

HOBOKEN –The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and engineering firm AECOM will host a series of design workshops in May and June to solicit feedback on the Rebuild by Design Hudson River project, a federal project to relieve flooding in the area.
The project will help protect Hoboken in times of extreme weather events from flooding using infrastructures like floodwalls, seawalls, and soft landscaping such as berms and levees. These items could appear as part of parks, rain gardens, bicycle parking, and murals, in northern and southern Hoboken.
The design workshops will focus on characteristics and amenities of the project.
A workshop will take place on May 30 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 1600 Adams St. in the North Hudson Sewerage Authority Board Room, and another will take place the following day, May 31, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Multi-Service Center at 124 Grand St.
These workshops will discuss the alignment in the north end of the project area from the border of Weehawken, through Harborside Park, to Washington Street south of Fourteenth Street.
On June 6 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 22 Hackensack Ave. in Weehawken (St. Lawrence RC Church) another workshop will be held to discuss the Weehawken design of the alignment as well as Harborside Park.
Later workshops are expected to be scheduled for late June which will discuss the design of the alignment in Hoboken’s south near Observer Highway and the Jersey City portion of the alignment.
Fliers for the workshops can be found at http://hobokennj.gov/content/wp-content/uploads/180522_DZW01-FLYER-1.pdf”.