OFFICIAL SITE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEYRebuild by Design Hudson River
Project Overview
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched the Rebuild by Design (RBD) competition in the summer of 2013 to develop ideas to improve physical, ecological, economic, and social resilience in regions affected by Superstorm Sandy. The competition sought to promote innovation by developing flexible solutions that would increase regional resilience. The proposed project was one of the competition’s six winning concepts; it was developed with the goal of reducing frequent flooding due to storm surge, high tide, and heavy rainfall. HUD awarded $230 million to the State of New Jersey for the Project in the municipalities of Hoboken, Weehawken, and Jersey City. Another RBD project is being developed for the Meadowlands.
RBD-Hudson River will address both major storm surges and high tides as well as from heavy rainfall events. It will be built throughout the City of Hoboken, and will extend into Weehawken and Jersey City, with the following approximate boundaries: the Hudson River to the east; Baldwin Avenue (in Weehawken) to the north; the Palisades to the west; and 18th Street, Washington Boulevard and 14th Street (in Jersey City) to the south.
Throughout the process, NJDEP has encouraged broad involvement via public meetings, collaboration, construction updates, and publicly-available materials. Please click on either button below to learn more, or scroll further down to read more about RBD-Hudson River.
Project Scope
RBD Hudson operates on four principles working in unison:
- Resist: a combination of hard infrastructure (such as bulkheads, floodwalls and seawalls) and soft landscaping features (such as berms and/or levees which could be used as parks) that act as barriers along the coast during exceptionally high tide and/or storm surge events;
- Delay: policy recommendations, guidelines and urban green infrastructure to slow stormwater runoff;
- Store: green and grey infrastructure improvements, such as bioretention basins, swales, and green roofs, that slow down and capture stormwater, and which will complement the efforts of the City of Hoboken’s existing Green Infrastructure Strategic Plan; and
- Discharge: enhancements to Hoboken’s existing stormwater management system, including the identification and upgrading of existing stormwater/sewer lines, outfalls and pumping stations.
The DEP is undertaking the “Resist” component of the four principles while the other three principles are being addressed by the City of Hoboken and other stakeholders.
Dennis Reinknecht, Director
Division of Resilience Engineering and Construction
44 S Clinton Ave
Trenton, NJ 08609
PH: (609) 984-0556