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NJSPE
NJSPE is offering 6 hours of Continuing Education, in two locations, to satisfy CE requirements. Mark your calendar! Full information will be sent next week!
Wednesday, March 9, The Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset, New Jersey
Monday, April 18, Crown Plaza, Cherry Hill
NSPE
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PEC
Please join us once again for this popular networking event. This annual
celebration has largely a social purpose in bringing together the diverse
interests of the Construction Industry in common recognition of our important
role in building a better New Jersey and improving the quality of life of all our
citizens. Recently, there has been increased emphasis on the need for
transportation funding and other infrastructure as well as construction's
positive impact on our economy.
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PSPE
The PSPE Conference Planning Committee works to offer a balanced program of educational sessions. Proposals are needed on structural, mechanical, electrical, chemical, ethics, law, case studies, project management, estimating, civil projects and other topics. (Topics related to sales and marketing cannot be accepted.)
Send a note to jennifer@wannerassoc.com with your idea.
PSPE 2016 Conference
Sept. 21-24, 2016 | King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
NJ.com
When state officials talk about the crisis in funding for critical transportation improvement, they frequently point to a hundred-year-old railway bridge in Summit.
But while the old Morris Avenue bridge over the Morris & Essex rail line dating back to 1905 — which is finally on a list for replacement — may be the poster child for the state's desperate need for additional transportation funding, millions of dollars each year are routinely doled out to far lower-profile local road repaving and construction projects across the state.
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NJ Spotlight
New Jersey needs to invest more than $17 billion over the next five years to improve its aging wastewater-treatment plants and the pipes for those systems, according to a new survey by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The huge expense is part of a projected $271 billion the nation has to spend to maintain and improve the technology for treating sewage and managing the runoff of pollution into the country's waters, the agency said.
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NJ Spotlight
New Jersey may be getting another natural-gas-fired power plant thanks to a project that would be built in Hillsborough Township, if it can obtain the necessary approvals.
The $1 billion project would be big enough to supply power to 700,000 homes during summer months, according to a website on the proposed facility, the Amwell Energy Center. Genesis Power LLC is the developer of the project.
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Tri-Town News
The Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority (BTMUA) and Howell Township have completed a storm water improvement project on Moses Milch Drive in the Ramtown section of Howell.
The cleaner discharge from the Moses Milch Drive storm water basin will improve the health of the Metedeconk River and Barnegat Bay, according to James Herrman, Howell's director of community development.
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NJ.com
Eight months after acquiring a gas-fired power plant in Bayonne, the company that owns an adjacent liquid storage and handling facility in the city has purchased the land beneath the plant, enabling the company to expand both industrial sites.
Macquarie Infrastructure Co., a publicly traded company managed by Australia's largest investment bank, Macquarie Group Ltd., acquired the Bayonne Energy Center in April 2015 for $720 million.
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NJ Spotlight
Exercising seldom-used oversight, legislators recently voted to block a controversial new rule proposal that critics say will undermine water-quality protections and increase flooding in the state.
By a 45-28-2 vote largely along partisan lines, the Assembly gave final approval to a resolution (SCR-180), saying that the massive rule revision proposed by the state Department of Environmental Protection last June is inconsistent with legislative intent of current laws.
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Bloomberg
New Jersey Transit trains are breaking down more often as Chris Christie continues a tradition of governors diverting money for capital improvements to cover operating costs.
In the 12 months ended June 30, trains went an average 83,815 miles (135,000 kilometers) between failures, the worst performance in at least four years, according to agency figures.
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NJ.com
New Jersey and its municipalities face a $17.5 billion sewage treatment bill over the next five years to avoid overflows of untreated waste into the state's rivers and other waterways, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
Almost half of the estimated cost, $8 billion, is to expand treatment facilities to handle the sewage. Another $5 billion is the estimated cost of advanced treatment of the waste.
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Asbury Park Press
Is the solution to the decades-old flood problem at Wreck Pond finally here?
Local, state and federal officials convened at the south end of Spring Lake recently to kick-off the start of the construction of a 600-foot culvert pipe they said will help regulate tidal flow and reduce flooding. Spring Lake mayor Jennifer Naughton called it the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken in the borough.
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NJ Spotlight
An independent investigation of the federal agency that oversees construction of natural- gas pipelines is being sought by 165 organizations in New Jersey and neighboring states.
Saying the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is biased in favor of the energy industry, the groups are asking two U.S. senators to formally request a probe of the agency by the Government Accountability Office.
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| | 2015-2016 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |
| President |
Michael J. Hope, PE |
| President-Elect |
Mark Janiszewski, PE |
| Vice President |
Vatsal A. Shah, PE |
| Secretary |
Michael J. Bennink, PE |
| Treasurer |
William Castle, PE |
| First Past President |
Mark V. Shourds, PE, PP |
| NSPE Director At Large |
Brian Van Nortwick, EIT |
| NSPE Delegate |
Richard Olsen, PE |
| Counsel |
Lawrence Powers, Esq. |
| Executive Director |
Joseph A. Simonetta, CAE |
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