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The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation group, has done extensive work in the Barnegat Bay area for over two decades, protecting over 1,100 acres (4.5 km 2) of land. The Trust recently began the new River to Bay Greenway, the primary goal of which is to create a 70-mile (110 km) multi-use recreational route across southern New ...
The Metedeconk River / m ə ˈ t iː d ə k ʌ ŋ k / is a tributary of Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States.. The Metedeconk River flows from its 22.3-mile-long (35.9 km) [1] North and 22.6-mile-long (36.4 km) [1] South Branches to their confluence at Forge Pond, where the river widens (up to just over 1 mile (1.6 km)) and flows southeast for 6 miles (9.7 km) into ...
Passage to Bay Head Harbor and the Barnegat Bay is possible via the Point Pleasant Canal. The present Manasquan River Inlet was dug in the 1920s with the original inlet located at Stockton Lake. [1] The present day inlet is the northern terminus of the Intracoastal Waterway. The inlet is home to the Squan US Coast Guard station.
Barnegat Bay The Point Pleasant Canal is a canal in Point Pleasant, New Jersey . It was completed in 1925 to connect the Manasquan Inlet and Manasquan River with Bay Head Harbor on the northern end of Barnegat Bay .
Oyster Creek is a 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km) [1] tributary of Barnegat Bay in southeastern New Jersey in the United States. [2] The creek is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Forked River in southern Ocean County. [2] The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is located on an 800-acre (3.2 km 2) site at Forked River. [2]
It is probable, however, that it broke through about 1750. It is laid down on Lewis Evans's map, 1755, and in Jeffrey's (English) map, same year, and on the latter and other maps it is called New Inlet. On Jeffrey's map Tom's River is called Goose Creek, and Barnegat Bay is called Flat Bay Sound.
On nautical charts, the top of the chart is always true north, rather than magnetic north, towards which a compass points. Most charts include a compass rose depicting the variation between magnetic and true north. However, the use of the Mercator projection has drawbacks. This projection shows the lines of longitude as parallel.
The river empties into the western side of Barnegat Bay, with mid-channel depths of 3.5 to 5 feet (1.1 to 1.5 m). [3] At 124 sq mi (320 km 2), the Toms River subwatershed is the largest drainage area of any river in the Barnegat Bay watershed. [4] It includes 11 municipalities in Ocean County and portions of southwestern Monmouth County. The ...