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Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
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]
Among the major rivers in New Jersey are the Manasquan, Maurice, Mullica, Passaic, Rahway, Raritan, Musconetcong, Hudson and Delaware rivers. Throughout history, the Delaware and Raritan rivers have played a crucial role in transporting goods and people from the Atlantic Ocean into the inland areas, and they were once connected by the Delaware ...
Get the Forked River, NJ local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 42 miles (68 km) long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States. It is separated from the Atlantic by the long Island Beach State Park (colloquially called a " barrier island "), as well as by the north end of Long Beach Island , popular segments ...
Forked River is located on U.S. Route 9 south of Toms River. The community of Lanoka Harbor is directly north of Forked River, Bamber Lake is to the west, Barnegat is to the southwest, and Waretown is to the south. Forked River is also the name of a nearby river that empties into Barnegat Bay.
Head of tide, tidal limit [2] or tidehead [3] is the furthest point upstream where a river is affected by tidal fluctuations, [4] or where the fluctuations are less than a certain amount. [5] The river section influenced by tides and marine forces, but without salinity is a tidal river. Downstream areas are brackish and termed estuaries. [6]
In 1967, the Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed in the case of O'Neill v. State Highway Department that the state owns "all lands that are flowed by the tide up to the high-water line or mark." After the O'Neill decision, legislation was adopted that required title studies and surveys of the state's tidelands.