Main TitleThe Navesink Watershed Management Effort
PublisherNational Academy of Public Administration
Date Created2000-06-01
Subject (Geographic - Hierarchical) Country: United States State: New Jersey County: NA
Subject (Topical)economics; environmental law; watershed; water quality; National Environmental Performance Partnership System; NEPPS; resource policy; fecal coliform bacteria
DescriptionNew Jersey's Navesink Watershed Management Project began in 1981 with a question posed by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Can waters degraded through nonpoint pollution be improved? Federal, state, county, and municipal agencies; environmental groups; and civic organizations participated in a three-pronged strategy of reducing coliform bacteria from agricultural runoff, urban/suburban runoff, and boats. This report analyzes the impacts of watershed management in the Navesink on water quality, and provides suggestions for improving data collection to further such efforts. We then follow with a description of activities in the Navesink, with supporting information from other watershed management efforts in New Jersey. The report then discusses the findings from the case, and their potential implications for watershed management before concluding with a listing of recommendations that pertain to NJDEP and EPA.
NoteThis report is Research Paper Number 9 from the series "Learning from Innovations In Environmental Protection: Commissioned Research Papers" from the Center for Economy and the Environment at the National Academy of Public Administration. Funded by U.S. EPA contract number 68-W-98-211.
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