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New Jersey Water Pollution Control Law consists of legislative and regulatory measures intended to limit the amount of harmful substances found in the state's lakes, rivers, and groundwater. In New Jersey, the federal Clean Water Act and the state Water Pollution Control Act are the most significant pieces of water pollution control legislation ...
New Jersey Meadowlands
The New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary has a variety of flora and fauna. Much of the harbor originally consisted of tidal marshes that have been dramatically transformed by the development of port facilities. [1] The estuary itself supports a great variety of thriving estuarine aquatic species; contrary to popular stereotypes, New York Harbor ...
Hurricane Sandy was the costliest natural disaster in the history of New Jersey, with economic losses to businesses of up to $30 billion. The most intense storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy formed in the Caribbean Sea on October 22. For days ahead of its eventual landfall, the hurricane was expected to turn toward New Jersey, as ...
The Navesink River is an estuary in the eastern United States in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Approximately eight miles (13 km) in length, it is surrounded by the communities of Middletown (including the namesake Navesink CDP ), Red Bank, Fair Haven, and Rumson . Known officially as the North Shrewsbury River and upstream of Red Bank as the ...
Metedeconk River
100 ft (30 m) The Blue Hole is located in the Pinelands of Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey and Winslow Township, Camden County, New Jersey. It is a clear blue body of water situated in the middle of a dense forest, with many similar such lakes in its immediate vicinity. The water has warm and cold spots, averaging 58 to 60 ...
A 2016 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers map showing New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary's drainage divide and drainage basin Harrisse/LOC copy of the Manatus Map of 1639 An 1866 map of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary A 2011 NASA image of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary Population density and elevation above sea level in the New York City metropolitan area as of 2010 An aerial view of ...