Twenty-one municipalities in New Jersey have combined sewer overflows (CSOs). This causes flooding into the streets and rivers, and sometimes basements of disinvested communities. Experts are working to keep stormwater out of the sewers to prevent overflows.

Environmental pioneers have planned strategically and cooperatively to combat threats to natural spaces like development, invasive species of plants and animals, climate change, and industrial pollution. They’re showing how the human ecosystem and plant and animal ecosystems can survive and thrive together.