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Advocates urge adding ecological damages to New Jersey dam hazard classifications
Summary
Rebecca Hilbert of The Nature Conservancy of New Jersey testified in favor of Assembly Bill 1468, saying the measure would require the DEP to consider natural-resource impacts in dam hazard classifications to better protect rivers, wildlife and downstream communities; the committee released the bill unanimously.
Rebecca Hilbert, policy associate for The Nature Conservancy of New Jersey, told an Assembly committee that Assembly Bill 1468 would require the Department of Environmental Protection to consider potential impacts to natural resources when classifying dams by hazard potential.
Hilbert said New Jersey currently has “1700 regulated dams” and about 1,000 unregulated barriers, and that many structures are past typical service lives. She told the panel that dam infrastructure in the state averages closer to 60 years old and that the American…
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