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The blast was felt as far away as Princeton, New Jersey (50 miles or 80 kilometres). [3] It sent a geyser of water 250 feet (76 m) in the air. [ 4 ] The blast has been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb", [ 4 ] although the detonation at the Battle of Messines in 1917 was larger.
In New Jersey, the Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Site Remediation Program oversees the Superfund program. As of 16 August 2024, there are 115 Superfund sites listed on the National Priorities List (NPL). Thirty-six additional sites have been cleaned up and deleted from the list.
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This is a list of newspapers in New Jersey. There were, as of 2020, over 300 newspapers in print in New Jersey. Historically, there have been almost 2,000 newspapers published in New Jersey. [1] The Constitutional Courant, founded in 1765 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, is the earliest known New Jersey newspaper. [2]
At the base of the Clinton Reservoir by the Clinton Brook, West Milford, New Jersey Coordinates 41°4′20″N 74°27′0″W / 41.07222°N 74.45000°W / 41.07222; -74
Nixon is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2] [3] It was named after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Nixon established a massive volatile chemicals processing facility there, known as the Nixon Nitration Works.
Portable blast systems use either a welded pressure vessel, to overcome nozzle backpressure, to store and transfer abrasive media into a connected blast hose from a higher pressure differential, or use a non-pressurized hopper, which utilizes a process called dual induction, which conveys abrasive media to a tandem blast nozzle using an air ...
The 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed several square miles of New Jersey factories. [1] It began on March 1, 1924, about 11:15 a.m., when an explosion destroyed a building in Nixon, New Jersey (an area within present-day Edison, New Jersey) used for processing ammonium nitrate. [2]