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Monitoring Effects of Urban Land Use on Estuarine Water Quality, Hackensack Meadowlands District, New Jersey. Retrieved from
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Main TitleMonitoring Effects of Urban Land Use on Estuarine Water Quality, Hackensack Meadowlands District, New Jersey
PublisherAmerican Water Resources Association
Date Created1994
Subject (Geographic)Bergen County
Subject (Geographic - Hierarchical)
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
Subject (Topical)contamination; development; environmental data; environmental monitoring; hazardous waste; pollution; water quality; industry; power plants; sewage treatment plants; landfills; stormwater; transportation; oxygen; fecal coliform bacteria; pesticides; trace metals; estuarine; Hackensack Meadowlands District; Hackensack River Estuary; Newark Bay
DescriptionIn 1993, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, established a network of 14 ambient water monitoring sites to characterize the current status of water quality in the Hackensack Meadowlands District. The network is designed to analyze trends in water quality over the next 20 years. The District, situated less than 6 miles west of New York City in northeastern New Jersey, consists of 20,000 acres of tidal marshes and upland drained by the lower segment of the Hackensack River into Newark Bay. Along this 10 nautical-mile-long reach, industry, power plants, sewage treatment plants, combined and discreet stormwater outfalls, landfills, hazardous-waste sites, and an extensive transportation network are present. Water quality constituents summarized include conventional field parameters, nutrients, trace metals, chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorophyll a- and b- as phytoplankton, suspended solids, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, fecal coliform bacteria and turbidity. This program will insure the uninterrupted flow of information needed by decision makers to manage development within the estuary.
NoteProceedings of the American Water Resources Association's National Symposium on Water Quality, 1994. This document was obtained from the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI) through the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC) at Rutgers University, Newark. Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute, Rutgers/CIMIC, 180 University Avenue, Room 202, Newark, New Jersey 07102. meri@cimic.rutgers.edu http://cimic.rutgers.edu
NotePurpose: To insure the uninterrupted flow of information needed by decision makers to manage development within the Hackensack River Estuary.
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Date: 2001-04-09 00:00:00.0
Creator: Smith, Emily Anna
Organization NameNew Jersey Environmental Digital Library
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