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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Island Beach is a barrier spit located on the Jersey Shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Ocean County, New Jersey.Since the closing of Cranberry Inlet about 1812 [1] (approximately at the boundary between Ortley Beach and Seaside Heights), it has been joined physically to Squan Beach, and is a major component of the Barnegat Peninsula.
In this undertaking care was taken to let in the water when it was high tide in the bay and low water outside; but this enterprise, also, proved a failure, as it filled up about as soon as Ortley's. [5] Access to the upper part of Barnegat Bay was finally achieved in 1925 with the opening of the Point Pleasant Canal.
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 ...
The Barnegat Peninsula, also known as the Island Beach Peninsula or Barnegat Bay Island and colloquially as "the barrier island", is a 20-mile (32 km) long, narrow barrier peninsula located on the Jersey Shore in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, that divides the Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.