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As of Oct. 10, the reservoir was holding less than 61% of its nearly 4.7 billion gallon capacity, according to the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, which manages the water body. The reservoir is ...
In northern New Jersey, the Spruce Run Reservoir in Hunterdon County was at less than 32% of its 3.5 billion gallon capacity as of Nov. 12, according to the water supply authority.
The reservoir itself, which is dammed from the Manasquan River, is operated by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, which is a part of the much larger Raritan Basin Watershed. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The nature trails circling around the reservoir are what makes this county park as one of the most popular hiking destinations in Central New Jersey , [ 7 ...
The Manasquan Reservoir, which provides drinking water for southern Monmouth County, had just 58% of its nearly 4.7 billion gallon capacity as of Oct. 17, according to the New Jersey Water Supply ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in New Jersey.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The Manasquan River is a 26.5-mile-long (42.6 km) [1] waterway in central New Jersey.. It flows from western Monmouth County, beginning in Freehold Township, near the headwaters for the Manalapan Brook and Millstone River systems in the Raritan Basin, and flowing to the Atlantic Ocean, where it empties between the communities of Manasquan and Point Pleasant via the Manasquan Inlet. [2]
The NJDEP held a public hearing Tuesday morning to discuss the possibility of a drought warning amid ongoing warm and dry conditions across the state.
Withdrawing water from the aquifer is managed by the Bureau of Water Allocation within the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). As of 2009, there were 958 high-capacity water wells registered with the NJDEP. The wells yield an average of 400 gallons of water per minute (gpm), with a peak output of 4,500 gpm.