Research snapshot · Water · 31 August 2026

Stormwater management in New Jersey: 10 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Already a well-mapped Known topic. NPDES and water resource management merged in.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 11 dated municipal records flagged as stormwater management in New Jersey, spanning 10 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Carteret, 15 September 2025. Since then 10 New Jersey towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Camden on 14 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 2 meetings on the record, well down from 7 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: City Council, The Rahway Review and Board of Public Works.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202511
Dec 2025 to Feb 202611
Mar 2026 to May 202676
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)22

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 7 meetings.

The towns on the record10, earliest first

Every New Jersey town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Carteretearliest 2025-09-15 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-09-15 · the document 2025-09-15_Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program_Carteret Borough
Cliftonearliest 2026-02-03 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-03 · the agenda City Council Regular Meeting Full Agenda (PDF)
Westfieldearliest 2026-03-24 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-04-07 · the agenda Notice of Board of Public Works Commission Meeting and Agenda
Englewoodearliest 2026-03-26 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-26 · the minutes Minutes — Planning Board
Long Branchearliest 2026-04-08 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-04-08 · the agenda City Council Meeting Materials
Lindenearliest 2026-05-04 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-05-04 · the minutes May 4 2026 – Meeting Minutes
Hackensackearliest 2026-05-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-05-14 · the document The_Green_Scene_Spring_2026_v.2.1 (1)
Palisades Parkearliest 2026-05-18 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-06-26 · the ordinance Introduction of Ordinance 2026-16
Camdenearliest 2026-07-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-07-14 · the document 7-14-2026 (revised)
Rahwaydated to the year only

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

14 July 2026 · Camden

the document, on the town's own site 7-14-2026 (revised)

26 June 2026 · Palisades Park

the ordinance, on the town's own site Introduction of Ordinance 2026-16

14 May 2026 · Hackensack

the document, on the town's own site The_Green_Scene_Spring_2026_v.2.1 (1)

4 May 2026 · Linden Unknown

the minutes, on the town's own site May 4 2026 – Meeting Minutes

Companies on this record33 companies, 7 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
AARPRahway
Advanced Drainage SystemsClifton
AECOMClifton
AES CorporationClifton
ALLIANT ENERGYLinden
American Water WorksClifton
AVAYAClifton
AVAYA, LLCClifton
BobcatClifton
Bogey's Latin and American Restaurant & Bar, LLCClifton
Borough of CarteretCarteret
Borough of Palisades ParkPalisades Park
Casella Waste SystemsClifton
Clifton's Best Pizzeria MonteClifton
CME Associates, Inc.Clifton
ComcastRahway
CordonEnglewood
French & Parrello AssociatesCarteret
Garden Club of HackensackHackensack
GRAINGERLinden
HarmannLinden
HorowitzEnglewood
IOWA ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPALLinden
IPERSLinden
Isaac and Rebecca GlasmanEnglewood
LermanEnglewood
MIDAMERICAN ENERGYLinden
National Water Main & Cleaning CompanyCarteret
PatinoEnglewood
PEOPLES BANKLinden

And 3 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 109 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Stormwater management across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Stormwater management, New Jersey

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New Jersey

every topic this state carries

Area

Water

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

10

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

15 September 2025

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

2 against 7 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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