Captain Bill Sheehan will give the keynote address at the Hackensack River Nation Summit.
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation announces Captain Bill Sheehan will present the keynote address at the Hackensack River Nation Summit on April 22. Captain Sheehan, Executive Director of Hackensack Riverkeeper, will discuss ‘The State of the Hackensack River’. The Summit takes place from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the Student Union Building located at Sub Lane in Teaneck, New Jersey.
The Summit brings together public officials, leaders of environmental organizations such as Captain Bill Sheehan and community groups, and business leaders seeking to protect the Hackensack River watershed ecosystem and to connect more people to the waterway. The Hackensack River flows and impacts these municipalities in Bergen and Hudson counties: Oradell, Haworth, Emerson, New Milford, Hackensack, River Edge, Bogota, Teaneck, Ridgefield Park, Little Ferry, North Bergen, Secaucus, and also Jersey City.
Featured presentations and workshops include the following:
- cleaning up the Hackensack River Superfund site, led by the US Environmental Protection Agency;
- collaborating for better and more cost-effective stormwater management planning, led by the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and New Jersey Future;
- choosing green infrastructure for watershed protection, led by United Energy Advisors;
- building trails in urban and also suburban communities, led by the New York/New Jersey Trails Conference; and
- creating Strong Watershed Alliances, with the Hackensack Riverkeeper, Musconetcong Watershed Association, and the Waterfront Alliance.
Workshop Sessions
These workshops are confirmed and scheduled to take place.
- Collaborating for Better Stormwater Management Planning with Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP from the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation; Chris Sotiro, New Jersey Future; and Kristina Korervo and Miranda Muniz, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
- Building Strong Watershed Alliances with panelists Cortney Worrall from Waterfront Alliance and Thomas Alesio, FAICP/PP, from Musconetcong Watershed Association
- Green Infrastructure: Leaves and Branches with André Masud and Kevin Parham, United Energy Advisors
- Building Trails in Urban and Suburban Communities with Peter Dolan, New York/ New Jersey Trails Conference
- Hackensack River Superfund Cleanup with presenters from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, District 2
Summit exhibitors from environmental organizations and agencies in the Hackensack River watershed will also be available to meet. The organizations scheduled to exhibit include Jersey Water Works,and New Jersey Future. In addition, other exhibitors include New York-New Jersey Trails Conference, Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, Ramapo College, and Sewage Free Streets and Rivers.
Registration
Register for the Summit conveniently online. Tickets are available for the general public $80, and government and nonprofit environmental commission and green team members $40, as well as students and green infrastructure champions $20. Furthermore, the Summit offers special ticket prices for students attending Fairleigh Dickinson University and Montclair State University. In addition, students attending Ramapo College and Rutgers University receive special ticket rates. To purchase one of these special ticket rates, a valid student email address is required.
For additional information about the Summit, contact the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s Executive Director, Leonardo Vazquez, at leo@nnjcf.org or call 201-568-5608 extension 2.
Sponsors and Donations Appreciated
The NNJCF seeks sponsors and also donations to support the Hackensack River Nation Summit. Notably, sponsorships support the development of greener, cleaner and also healthier places in the region. To date, sponsors for the Summit include Dimension Energy, PSEG Foundation and M&T Charitable Foundation.
Make a donation of any size online. Send contributions by check made out to ‘The Northern N.J. Community Foundation’, with ‘Hackensack River Nation Summit’ entered in the memo line. Mail checks to the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, 1 University Plaza, Suite 102, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601. For further information about sponsorships, donations, or the NNJCF, call 201-568-5608 or send an e-mail to nnjcf@nnjcf.org.
