By Maddie Orton
NJTV Online
The garden on this Hoboken rooftop isn’t just eye candy for the residents above, it’s part of the city’s green infrastructure to combat stormwater runoff. And mayor Dawn Zimmer is pushing to see more of it—starting with City Hall.
“We want to try to be a model and show the community that there are different ways and different strategies,” says Zimmer, “but City Hall is going to be an example of how you could potentially disconnect your downspouts.”
The stormwater that rushes out of these downspouts and onto roads picks up copper from brake pads, fuel and chemicals. In urban areas like Hoboken, where there isn’t much natural ground to soak it up, that stormwater flows into the sewers and out to bodies of water, affecting the ecosystem.
Stormwater runoff is also a source of the city’s flooding woes. And it gets worse.
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