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ACUA is home to the first wind farm in New Jersey and the country's first coastal wind project, the Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm, which is located at its Wastewater Treatment Plant in Atlantic City. The ACUA partnered with Community Energy Inc. to build the farm, which consists of five turbines that can generate up to 7.5 megawatts of power.
Lake Como is a borough located in the Jersey Shore region, within Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,697, [7] a decrease of 62 (−3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 1,759, [15] [16] which in turn reflected a decline of 47 (−2.6%) from the 1,806 counted in the 2000 census. [17]
The Boonton Reservoir is a 700-acre (280 ha) reservoir located between Boonton and Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey. Boonton, along with nearby Splitrock Reservoir, provides water for Jersey City, New Jersey. [2] It was formed by the construction of a dam on the Rockaway River completed in 1904 [1] on the site of the original town of Boonton ...
Monmouth County (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ /) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is bordered to its west by Mercer and Middlesex Counties, to its south by Ocean County, to its east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to its north by the Raritan Bay (sharing a border with the boroughs of Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens in New York City, across it).
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Increased population and industrialization after World War II meant that water quality across the United States was in a downward spiral. Catalyzed by the publication of Silent Spring and a Time (magazine) article on the pollution of America's waterway's featuring pictures of the Cuyahoga River on fire, public opinion began to shift decisively in favor of strong governmental action to abate ...
The reservoir itself, which is dammed from the Manasquan River, is operated by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, which is a part of the much larger Raritan Basin Watershed. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The nature trails circling around the reservoir are what makes this county park as one of the most popular hiking destinations in Central New Jersey , [ 7 ...
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