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DescriptionThe study area in this report is the shallow water area of the Delaware River Estuary from Reedy Point, Delaware to the head of tide at Trenton, New Jersey. Shallow water areas are defined as those...
Date Created1978
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Main TitleUnearthing New Jersey Vol. 3, No. 1
DescriptionThe New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS) provides geoscience information to government agencies, consultants, industry, environmental groups and the public. The work of the Survey covers large regional...
Date Created2007
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DescriptionSediments dredged from urban and industrial harbor areas and sludges form sewage treatment plants are continuously generated in large quantities by coastal cities. Disposal of these materials presents...
Date Created1979
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Main TitleFinal Environmental Impact Statement on the Ocean Dumping of Sewage Sludge in the New York Bight
DescriptionThis document examines the issue of ocean dumping of sewage sludge in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. Continuing public concern about the environmental effect of sludge dumping, and about...
Date Created1978
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Main TitleThe Effects of Waste Disposal in the New York Bight, Final Report: Section 4 - Finfish Studies
DescriptionThis study is about the effect of sewage sludge on benthic fishes. The study indicates local species of groundfish that frequent the area of sewage sludge disposal year-around and fish actively feed...
Date Created1972
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DescriptionThis study was a two-year program initiated by a working committee comprised of invited scientists, staff memebrs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC),...
Date Created1972
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Main TitleThe Effects of Waste Disposal in the New York Bight, Final Report: Section 5 - Chemical Studies
DescriptionThis study was a two-year program initiated by a working committee comprised of invited scientists, staff memebrs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC), and...
Date Created1972
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Main TitleThe Effects of Waste Disposal in the New York Bight, Final Report, Section 2: Benthic Studies
DescriptionThis is the second part of a final report on the effects of waste disposal in the New York Bight. Because benthic organisms in coastal marine and estuarine environments may be the first forms to be...
Date Created1972
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Main TitleOcean Dumping in the New York Bight
DescriptionThe New York Bight extends over 15,000 square miles from Long Island and New Jersey to the edge of the continental shelf, some 80-100 nautical miles offshore. Wastes from 20 million people are...
Date Created1975
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DescriptionThis professional paper documents the resource and economic losses caused by the decline in oxygen in the New York Bight during the summer of 1976 and the subsequent mortalities among benthic animals...
Date Created1979
