Canal Crossing

City of Jersey City, NJ

Canal Crossing Redevelopment Area

Lafayette

Canal Crossing – Existing Conditions

Canal Crossing Redevelopment Plan

∗ Mixed use, form based plan ∗ 111 Acres ∗ 17 Industrial Blocks divided into 40 City Blocks ∗ 30+ Brownfield Sites ∗ Multi-modal ∗ Urban Parks and Connections for Open Space ∗ Green building (LEED Silver) ∗ Mandatory Affordable Housing ∗ Presumptive Redevelopment Rights

Plan Implementation

Four main tasks: ∗ Survey & Subdivision ∗ Public infrastructure planning and design ∗ Light Rail expansion feasibility study ∗ Infrastructure Finance / Equity Mechanism

Funded by HUD Sustainable Communities Challenge and DOT TIGER II Infrastructure Planning Grants

Six Sustainability Principles

∗ Provide more transportation choices ∗ Promote equitable, affordable

housing ∗ Enhance economic competitiveness ∗ Support existing communities ∗ Coordinate policies and leverage

investment ∗ Value communities and

neighborhoods

- HUD/DOT/EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities

Canal Crossing - a Sustainable Community

Infrastructure – Water

∗ Designed for Maximum Density Demands at Build-Out

∗ Modeling to Evaluate Capacity of Existing System from Two Pressure Zones

∗ Proposed Rehabilitation Existing Mains and Installation of New Mains

∗ Reduced Reliance on Potable Water

∗ Designed for Maximum Density Demands at Build-Out

∗ Flow Monitoring and Site Survey to Determine Available Capacity

∗ Condition Assessment ∗ Rehabilitation Existing

Mains and Interceptors ∗ Installation of New Mains

and Interceptor ∗ Upgrades to Existing

Regulators and Pump Station

Infrastructure – Sanitary

Infrastructure – Stormwater

∗ Existing System Designed for 2-Year Storm

∗ Separate Combined System

∗ Design Proposed Storm Sewer for 25-Year Storm and Flood Protection for 100-Year Storm

∗ Review NJ Transit Basin Storage

∗ Address Water Quality

∗ Enhance Quality of Life

∗ Watershed west of Project Site drains to 96” combined sewer ∗ Project Site & 25 acre watershed drains to 72” combined sewer ∗ Regulators control flow ∗ 66” collector runs to pump station ∗ CSO runs to river ∗ Test model under existing storm conditions, compare to proposed ∗ Test maximizing attenuation to hold back peak under buildings

and in open space areas to reuse existing infrastructure

Stormwater Analysis

Drainage Basin

Green Streets

Reduce impervious cover, reduce runoff, and filter stormwater

Stormwater Management

http://thejcra.org/canalcrossing

Thank You!

Ben Delisle, Director of Development Jersey City Redevelopment Agency

66 York Street, 2nd floor Jersey City, NJ 07302

delisleb@jcnj.org 201-761-0822

Stormwater Analysis

Stormwater Analysis

Stormwater Analysis

Stormwater Analysis

Final Subdivision