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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in New Jersey. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
A major feature of the park is 30-acre Manalapan Lake, created from a dammed section of Manalapan Brook. The park includes mature secondary forest with trees such as tulip poplar, oak and hickory. An area of the park lies within the Spotswood outlier of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. [4]
New Jersey's state park system includes properties as small as the 32-acre (0.13 km 2) Barnegat Lighthouse State Park and as large as the 115,000-acre (470 km 2) Wharton State Forest. The state park system comprises 430,928 acres (1,743.90 km 2)—roughly 7.7% of New Jersey's land area—and serves over 17.8 million annual visitors.
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Spruce Run Recreation Area is a 1,290-acre (5.2 km 2) New Jersey state recreation area located in Union Township and Clinton Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. It encompasses the Spruce Run Reservoir that is used as a backup reservoir to protect the state from prolonged droughts.
All reservoirs in New Jersey should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in New Jersey; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in New Jersey; See also category Lakes of New Jersey
Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, United States, about 4 square miles (10 km 2) in area. Located 30 miles (48 km) from the Delaware River and 40 miles (64 km) from Manhattan, New York City , the lake forms part of the border between Sussex and Morris counties in the state's northern highlands region .
The park also has a wilderness area for camping, swimming and SCUBA diving facilities, a boat ramp and nature hiking and biking trails. The reservoir has been called the Bermuda Triangle of New Jersey, and over 26 people have drowned there since 1971. Six of them have never been found. [3] [4] Round Valley Reservoir, Clinton Township, NJ