Technical Assistance Directory
Permitting
AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY
- Specialty service provider for nature-based services, allowing municipalities to partner with us for efficiency and lower costs.
- Promotes the study and conservation of marine ecosystems through advocacy, conservation, and education, and empowers citizens with knowledge and tools to take ownership and become committed coastal stewards.
- Assistance includes: Planning, permitting, and implementation of habitat restoration projects; Technical support; Restoration oversight; Logistical planning; Design support; Ecological expert advice and guidance; EFH; Adaptive management; Monitoring plan development and implementation.
Contact
Tim Dillingham
Capt. Alek Modjeski
732-291-0055
Region(s) Served
Statewide
Resources
- Coastal Restoration Toolkit
- Restoring the Bayshore
- Wreck Pond
- Bayside Beach Club and Forked River Beach Living Shoreline Project
- Slade Dale Living Shoreline Project
- We Restore - What We Do
BRS, INC. (BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.)
- Planning assistance including local land use planning; economic development assistance; brownfields management from assessment to redevelopment; and the preservation or development of community resources, including historic properties, cultural resources, parks, and open spaces.
- Sustainability and resiliency planning including risk assessment and mitigation through green infrastructure solutions to floodplain and stormwater management and resilient energy strategies.
- Funding identification, grant writing, and grant management.
- Outsourced staffing/owner’s representation, project management, community outreach.
Contact
Carolyn Reinhardt
856-964-6456
Region(s) Served
Statewide
Resources
- Marsh Restoration and Resiliency Project - Client: Township of Little Egg Harbor and Tuckerton
- Sustainability Planning in the Bayfront Redevelopment Area - Client: Jersey City Redevelopment Agency
- Virtual Public Engagement Using EPA and FEMA Regional Resilience Toolkit - Client: EPA
DAVEY RESOURCE GROUP
- Environmental services with an emphasis on: Natural resources analyses; Coastal resilience planning; Forest, wetland, and stream habitat restoration; Wetland and riparian zone mitigation; Living shoreline designs; Wetlands, flood hazard area, and coastal permitting; Endangered and threatened species studies and habitat management plans; Aquatic and marine surveys; Tree surveys; Invasive species management; Stormwater management and BMP inspections; Construction monitoring and permit compliance
Contact
Damian Holynskyj
201-259-7349
Region(s) Served
Statewide
Resources
NJ DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
- Regulator assistance
Contact
Jill Aspinwall
609-984-9736
Region(s) Served
Statewide
NY/NJ BAYKEEPER
- Guidance to community groups and other restoration practitioners on: Oyster reefs, aquaculture, and living shoreline project management, including planning, permitting, construction, and monitoring; Water quality monitoring; Field ecology; Project management.
- Focus on restoration techniques unique to an urban estuary.
Contact
Meredith Comi
Region(s) Served
Hudson-Raritan Estuary, Raritan Bay, Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers, Northern NJ waters
RIPPLED WATERS ENGINEERING, LLC
- Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling in support of floodplain delineation and modification requests.
- Living shoreline design for private and public sector clients in the form of engineering analysis, design plans, permitting, and construction support.
Contact
Mary Paist-Goldman
732-735-3440
Region(s) Served
Statewide
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY COASTAL RESEARCH CENTER
- Physical data collection and analysis on coastal processes to define changes over time and drivers of current issues including shoreline and inlet data (topographic & hydrographic); water quality, nuisance flood, and wave forcing instrument deployment; GIS mapping and visualization.
- Evaluation and interpretation of data from others and over long time periods to predict outcomes of changes being observed now.
- Identification of root causes of coastal management issues and assembling solutions.
- Working with state and federal agencies to finalize project plans or designs for permits.
Contact
Kim McKenna
609-652-4245
Region(s) Served
Statewide
Resources