RUMSON: Rumson Garden Club hosts Clean Ocean Action founder Cindy Zipf for lecture on efforts to restore degraded marine waters. Open to public.

RED BANK: Recreational use of Navesink and Shrewsbury is safe despite massive, putrid fish die-off, environmental scientists say.

RED BANK: Clean Ocean Action announces town hall meeting with state officials on fish kill that has littered Navesink and Shrewsbury with reeking carcasses.

RED BANK: Clean Ocean Action reports on meeting with DEP over 'most severe' menhaden die-off in Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers in recent memory.

RED BANK: Clean Ocean Action presses state for a town hall on fish die-off, which scientists attribute to bacterium specific to menhaden.

RUMSON: After a bacteria crisis, Navesink is showing "rapid" improvement in water quality, with possible reopening of shellfish beds a year earlier than expected, state DEP says.

RED BANK: Officials from the 'Rally for the Navesink' collaborate celebrate success in finding a significant source of river bacteria on Marion Street.

RUMSON: Rally for the Navesink seeks volunteer water monitors, at a Thursday night forum.

RED BANK: Bacteria-sniffing dogs ID hotspots here and in Fair Haven as possible sources of human waste bacteria that's winding up in the Navesink River.

ON THE GREEN: Free public talks in Rumson and Fair Haven will update residents on ways to help keep the Navesink River clean and healthy, October 18 and 20.

RUMSON: Dogs have been called in to help track sources of fecal coliform in the Navesink.

SHREWSBURY: Effort to find and reduce fecal coliform levels in the Navesink cites a small success involving horse manure

RUMSON: An alarming rise in bacterial pollution in the Navesink draws more than 100 people to a confab on how to address it.

RUMSON: Clean Ocean Action plans a public discussion next week on the Navesink River shellfish ban due to pollution.