A 3078 New Jersey General Assembly · 2026-2027 Regular Session

Requires DEP to establish online flood, rainfall, river level, and sewer capacity dashboard.

This bill requires New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to create a publicly accessible online dashboard tracking real-time flood risks across the state. The dashboard must display rainfall, river levels, sewer capacity, flood damage reports, drainage complaints, and historical flood data from municipalities. Municipalities and counties must report this data to the DEP, with the dashboard updated weekly during active storm warnings. The DEP must annually review the system to standardize reporting, reduce administrative burdens on local governments, and improve data sharing capabilities.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

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Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Jun 1, 2026

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MODERATE

The bill was reported out of the Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee with amendments that expand its scope to explicitly include counties alongside municipalities in flood risk tracking, data reporting, and administrative burden reduction. The annual review section was restructured into subsections 2a and 2b for clarity, and terminology was tightened throughout (e.g., 'local governments' replaced with 'counties and municipalities'). Two new sponsors were added.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from covering only municipalities to explicitly including counties in flood risk tracking, historical incident reporting, and data reporting obligations. This broadens which local government entities are subject to the dashboard system and its associated reporting requirements.

SCOPE

The dashboard is now required to track 'county and municipal flood risks' rather than just 'municipal flood risks,' explicitly bringing counties into the scope of real-time flood risk monitoring.

Section 1b(1)(h) now requires tracking 'history of county and municipal flooding incidents during the previous year' instead of only municipal flooding incidents.

In Section 2a(3), 'local agencies' was changed to 'municipal agencies' when describing cross-system data sharing, narrowing the reference slightly.

REQUIREMENT

The annual review purpose in Section 2a(1) now states the goal is reducing administrative demand on 'counties and municipalities' rather than just municipalities, and Section 2b(2) replaces 'local governments' with 'counties and municipalities' when discussing machine-readable data reporting requirements.

TECHNICAL

Section 2 was restructured from a single paragraph into two subsections (2a for purposes of the review, 2b for what the review shall include), improving readability without changing substantive content.

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Committee

Jun 1, 2026

Committee

Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee

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Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

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2 primary · 1 co-sponsor