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PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: Jersey City Reservoir Enters a New Era with Award of Historic Preservation Plan Contract

Jersey City, New Jersey - July 17, 2009.   The Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy and the City Council are pleased to announce that the City Council unanimously approved a resolution to hire a team led by historic preservation architects John Milner Associates (JMA) for the first Reservoir #3 project.  The work to be performed by the JMA team will provide the City and the Reservoir Alliance with the research, site analysis and conceptual design necessary to learn about and preserve the Reservoir’s past, understand the present and look to the future.  The JMA team, headed by Architectural Conservator Alfonso Narvaez, includes Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a landscape architecture firm, Weidlinger Associates, a global civil engineering firm, and Robert Silman Associates, the premier structural engineering firm for historic structures, along with SESI and Princeton Engineering.

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