Spatial Planning for Future New Jersey Coastal Hazards

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Spatial Planning for Future New Jersey Coastal
Hazards

• Coastal Sustainability Symposium
• Urban Coast Institute
• 9/10/08

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Overview

• Coastal Landscape
• Past and Predicted Sea Level Rise
• Anticipated Inundation
• Wetland Dynamics
• Spatial Planning Belford/Port Monmouth case
• Community Rating
• Coastal Planning Office efforts

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The Jersey Shore Landscape
Image Author
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Global Climate Change New Jersey
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NJ Sea Level Rise
Image Psuty Ofiara, Coastal Hazard
Management Lessons and Future Directions from
New Jersey (2002).

Image Union of Concerned Scientists,
Confronting Climate Change in the U.S.
Northeast (2007).
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Wetland Dynamics

• Varies by geomorphology
• Factors include
• Slope/erodibility
• Sediment flux
• Flood frequency
• Subsidence
• Disturbance

Image Synthesis of U.S. Geological Survey
Science for the Chesapeake Bay
Ecosystem and Implications for Environmental
Management Circular 1316
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SLR Anticipated Extent Flooding
Images Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey
Coast Assessing Potential Impacts and
Opportunities, Cooper, Beevers Oppenheimer, (2
005).
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SLR Anticipated Extent Flooding
Image Vulnerability of New Jerseys Coastal
Habitats to Sea Level Rise, Lathrop Love,
(2007).
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Wetland Dynamics SLR Uncertainty
Images Synthesis of U.S. Geological Survey
Science for the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and
Implications for Environmental Management, Circu
lar 1316.
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Wetland Migration Impedance
Image Vulnerability of New Jerseys Coastal
Habitats to Sea Level Rise, Lathrop Love,
(2007).
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Spatial Planning
Retreat Zones Created by Lathrop Love
Vulnerability of New Jerseys Coastal Habitats
to Sea Level Rise
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NFIP/Community Rating
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Coastal Planning Efforts
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Thank You

• John DAgostino
• NJDEP
• Coastal Management Office