Tag Archives: Pollution

RED BANK: Two years after garden shutdown, DEP outlines $2.6M plan to excavate and replace lead-contaminated soil from nearby residential properties.

RED BANK: More than two years after community garden shutdown over possible lead contamination, DEP will give a public presentation Tuesday.

RED BANK: More than a century after it was used as a gas works, a borough property may get some 20th-century environmental remediation.

RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden was shut down over contamination concerns 13 months ago? We have an update.

RED BANK: What's Going On since community garden shutdown over contamination concerns? Tests that could involve properties hundreds of feet away.

RED BANK: Community gardeners air concerns about borough's "sense of urgency" following facility's closure over presence of lead in soil.

RED BANK: Tests of community garden soil finds elevated lead in one sample, but at a depth NJDEP says requires "no immediate response." More tests expected.

RED BANK: Borough shuts community garden in "abundance of caution" after neighbor's testing of its soil appear to show lead contamination, Shehady says.

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: To spotlight the environmental impact of plastic drinking straws, eight restaurants agree to give them only to customers who ask this month.

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

RED BANK: Better understanding of the sources of bacterial contamination prompts restart of kids' boating program suspended last summer.

FAIR HAVEN: An effort dubbed Rally for Navesink series continues tonight with discussions of oyster beds and safe boat waste disposal.

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.

RED BANK: Teaching kids "watershed mindfulness," plus the findings of bacteria-sniffing dogs, mark agenda for the final Rally for the Navesink of 2016.

RED BANK: Bacteria-sniffing dogs used to track contamination in the Navesink give a demo of their methods in a hospital conference room.

RED BANK: Meet the dogs who'll be used to help source-track bacteria in the Navesink.

RED BANK: Environmental and sporting groups urge action on Navesink contamination.

RUMSON: Sea nettles may have eaten this year's bloom of highly toxic clinging jellyfish. But no one knows when they might be back.

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