THE BIOSWALE SYSTEM
The system of bioswales along the main streets and avenues allows to gather and filter the stormwater. It permits as well to mitigate the ground impermeabilization and to avoid the water stagnation on the side of the roads.
The proposal is careful of the former canal system still visible specially in the industrial area.
THE WATER CONNECTORS
While the bioswales system on the northern Secaucus brings the gathered water to the Hackensack river or to the Mill Creek Marsh, for what concerns the other areas, the system implement another landscape element, which is the water connector. This infrastructure works as a reverse bioswale, for it leads the water out from the river to the inland watershed. These connectors, are as well meant to follow former, or even abandoned, infrastructures running along the industrial area of Secaucus, and convert them to pedestrian urban spaces for leisure activities, accessibility to public transports, and further collateral walkscapes, in addition to the plank trail.
THE IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM
The two elements introduced by the project are concurring same goals and it has been grafted to the pre-existent watershed and urban tissue, as well as the Hackensack Plank Trail, which becomes a water machine for gathering tidal flows and introducing the water into the connector running within the border separating residential and industrial zones. In particular this boundary from being a barrier, is turned into an ecological urban spine.
Another important element is the former railway, now dismissed, crossing Secaucus Road, in which a smaller plank trail is proposed to create amore urban walkscape, alternative to the Hackensack Plank Trail.
WALKSCAPES FOR SECAUCUS 