Why is flooding always so bad in North Jersey? The area was a prehistoric...
SCOTT FALLON / NORTHJERSEY.COM - Though a torrential downpour and 70 years of unfettered suburban development are to blame for the flooding that inundated Passaic River [go to article]
Map zeroes in on pollution in Delaware River watershed
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - It is the longest free-flowing river east of the Mississippi, the source of drinking water for more than 15 million people [go to article]
New Jersey lakes need to go on a diet. Too much phosphorus causing harmful...
JAMES M. O'NEILL / NORTHJERSEY.COM - New Jersey’s lakes are suffering from too much of a good thing [go to article]
N.J. finds PFNAs, ‘chemicals of emerging concern,’ in some recreational fishing waters
FRANK KUMMER / PHILLY.COM - For the first time, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has tested for man-made “chemicals of emerging concern” [go to article]
$5M in federal funding will help restore Delaware River Basin
BRENDA FLANAGAN / NJTV NEWS - It’s Jersey’s other coastline: the Delaware River. It runs along New Jersey’s entire western border, draining a watershed [go to article/video]
Big ‘ecological impact’ to follow removal of Warren County dam
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - A few week ago, hundreds of shad were spotted swimming in a small pool at the bottom of a 109-year-old hydropower dam [go to article]
Go/no-go for power plant on one of NJ’s most pristine waterways
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - A proposal to build a power plant on the Musconetcong River has obtained an exemption from Highlands [go to article]
Is NJ ready for water-use fee to fund billions in upgrades of aging infrastructure?
TOM JOHNSON / NJ SPOTLIGHT - It has never won support in the past, but a state senator is reviving a decades-old bill that would impose a fee on water use to fund the rebuilding [go to article]
New law ‘turns on the spigot’ at old plant that treats wastewater on Delaware...
BILL GALLO, JR. / NJ.COM - A South Jersey company could soon again be processing millions of gallons of hazardous wastewater and dumping the residue into the Delaware [go to article]
Editorial: New Jersey needs this tool to reduce flooding and water pollution
JIM WALTMAN / NJ SPOTLIGHT - New Jersey has a $15 billion problem. Polluted stormwater runoff causes damaging flooding, fouls rivers with pollution [go to article]
