Tag: Rally for the Navesink
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The DEP to determine health of Navesink River for shellfish harvesting
RUMSON – In 2020, The New Jersey Department of Environment Protection (DEP) will determine whether the Navesink River is clean enough to resume shellfish harvesting after the waterway was flagged as bacteria-ridden in 2016. But will the estuary be free of pathogens – including fecal matter – in one year? In an interview on March…
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Rally for the Navesink shines a light on jellyfish, pollution
By STEVEN VIERA Staff Writer RUMSON — Representatives of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Rutgers University, Montclair State University and other organizations joined members of the community to rally for the Navesink River. Clean Ocean Action, a Highlands-based nonprofit that is dedicated to improving water quality along the coasts of New Jersey and…
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Community rallies to discuss Navesink River pollution
By STEVEN VIERA Staff Writer RUMSON — More than one year after New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) downgraded 565 acres of the Navesink River as unsuitable for shellfishing, members of the community recently poured into Bingham Hall to learn about the pollution plaguing the waterway. Clean Ocean Action, a Highlands-based nonprofit dedicated to…