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Designing the Future of NJ’s Flood-Prone Lands
Rutgers ‘primer’ guides municipalities in how to protect themselves from rising waters
JON HURDLE / NJ SPOTLIGHT – At the corner of Weber Avenue and Loniewski Street in Sayreville, empty brown lots sit between a quiet former residential street and a line of phragmites-choked wetland bordering the South River about a quarter-mile away.
The lots are the former sites of about 50 single-family homes that were flooded up to their second floors by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, and later purchased and demolished by Blue Acres, New Jersey’s state-run buyout program for willing sellers of flood-prone properties …
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