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NJSME
New Jersey facility operators — including Atlantic City Electric, Elizabethtown Gas, Jersey Central Power & Light, New Jersey Natural Gas, Public Service Electric & Gas, South Jersey Gas, Suez Water, Verizon, and New Jersey One Call Center — will be hosting our 8th year series of meetings throughout the state to educate and promote the importance of underground utility safety. We encourage you and/or your staff to attend one of these FREE sessions to learn more about damage prevention and why it's so important to call 811 for a mark out before you dig — it's the law in New Jersey.
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NJSME
Mark your Calendars!
April 4, June 6, Sept. 12
NJSME will continue offering continuing education credits for PEs at all of our general membership meetings in 2018. We pride ourselves on offering low cost options and relevant topics for our membership. If you would like to recommend a topic or speaker for one of these meetings, please email Vice President Tim Staszewski with your suggestions.
Further, to help subsidize our meeting costs, we rely on meeting sponsors who can participate in our meeting with a tabletop display and brief remarks for a relatively small contribution. Any potential sponsors should also be directed to Tim via the email above, or they can call NJSME at 609-393-0102.
Lastly, this year we will be offering a discount for those who choose to pre-pay their meeting registrations up front for the entire year. In addition to cutting down on paperwork, members will save 20 percent! Look for more information when you receive the February Meeting notice.
NJSME
View the following PowerPoint presentation that was presented to the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers by Jim Murphy, Chief Bureau of Nonpoint Pollution Control.
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New Jersey Infrastructure Bank
Recent amendments to the NJEIT's Enabling legislation (P.L.2016, c.56.) changed the name of the NJEIT to the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank (I-Bank) and expanded the I-Bank's authority to include a financing program for local transportation projects. The I-Bank now manages these financing programs through two separate departments: The familiar New Jersey Infrastructure Trust (NJEIT) and the New Jersey Transportation Infrastructure Bank (NJTIB).
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TAPCO
TAPCO's pedestrian-activated rectangular rapid flash beacon (RRFB) systems produce 80-90 percent driver compliance in yielding to pedestrians at high-risk uncontrolled crossings. When activated by push button or motion detection, LED arrays flash a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) specified alternating wigwag pattern.
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ThinkProgress
While the surge in oil and natural gas pipeline construction over the past decade has been met with increasing resistance from residents and environmentalists, several key state officials have been steadfast in their support for fossil fuel infrastructure. State regulators from Pennsylvania to Virginia in particular have served as cheerleaders for pipeline development, regardless of the potential consequences. New Jersey, however, has started to take a different approach.
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NJ.com
Robert Barchi, president of Rutgers University, writes: "Legislation is quickly heading to Gov. Phil Murphy's desk that would dedicate $10 million to NJ Transit for initial planning for a light rail that would connect East Brunswick, New Brunswick, Piscataway and South Plainfield. This marks an important transportation investment in central New Jersey that will benefit the region for decades to come."
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Bloomberg
Federal inspectors found scores of New Jersey Transit train cars riddled with fire risks, faulty brakes and electrical hazards as they scrutinized the troubled railroad that brings 95,000 workers to Manhattan daily.
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Transport Topics
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey voted on Feb. 15 to dedicate $44 million to the multibillion dollar Hudson River tunnel project. The Hudson River tunnel project involves the construction of a new two-track rail tunnel from Newark to Pennsylvania Station in New York City and the rehabilitation of the existing 106-year-old North River Tunnel, which incurred damage during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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NJ.com
Carla Kelly-Mackey has been fighting to keep a pipeline off of her farm for years. Now, the private company is looking to use eminent domain, a right usually reserved for the government, to get at the land. Kelley-Mackey lives with her husband, Dan Mackey, on a 137-acre hay farm in Delaware Township.
In 2014, the couple was informed that their property was along the route for PennEast pipeline; a proposed 120-mile long natural gas pipeline that will run from the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania to Mercer County. The pipeline, estimated to cost $1 billion, would cut diagonally across Kelly-Mackey's property for more than a mile, underneath the hay fields and passing just 63 feet from the house.
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Safety + Health
Contractors in the construction industry are increasing their use of emerging technologies to enhance safety, and further growth is likely, results of a recent survey show.
More than 330 contractors participated in the survey, conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics in partnership with the Center for Construction Research and Training – also known as CPWR – and United Rentals.
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Construction Dive
Some construction companies pay employees based on the amount of work they complete because they find that a piece-rate structure leads to greater productivity on the job site than paying an hourly wage. But that depends on the type of project, as well as many other factors.
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Engineering News-Record
Permanent floating bridges are essentially boutique structures that only make sense for certain rare kinds of sites — unusually deep bodies of water and bodies of water with very soft bottoms, where piers are impractical. Norway, which already boasts two of the world's longest floating bridges, is the one country most actively studying new pontoon bridge projects. Its E39 coastal highway, a long-range megaproject, will incorporate eight major water crossings.
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Construction Dive
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, told The Hill last week that the infrastructure bill-writing process for the president's $1.5 trillion plan could be complete by summer. Shuster is working with the committee's ranking member, Peter DeFazio (R-Oregon), on a bipartisan measure based on the 55-page proposal for an infrastructure plan President Trump issued last week.
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