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New video on removal of Weston Mill Dam highlights preservation of historic artifacts

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Sara Malone in News, Public Access, Remediation, SOTR_Dams, SOTR_ThreatenedEndangeredSpecies, Stewardship

John Jengo, PG, a Principal of Santec Consulting Services, Inc., has produced a new video on the removal of the Weston Mill Dam on the Millstone River that highlights the history of the site and efforts to preserve the historic mill foundation during removal of the dam. View the new video here. See related article […]

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Aquatic Connectivity Through Climate-Ready Culverts

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Sara Malone in minigrant, News, R&D Posts, R3C News, Resilience, RU on the Raritan, SOTR_StormWaterCulverts, Stewardship

Aquatic connectivity is a key restoration goal for the New York – New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program (HEP) and its partners.  The creation of connectivity assessment protocols, training methods and data sharing developed by the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC) streamlined the effort to prioritize barrier removal to improve aquatic habitat. HEP combined […]

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Quantifying the Presence and Abundance of Freshwater and Euryhaline Bivalves in the Raritan River

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Sara Malone in minigrant, News, R&D Posts, R3C News, RU on the Raritan, Stewardship

There is very little information on the density and or the species of bivalve mollusks present in the watershed of the Raritan River basin.  The work that was conducted involved examining the presence or absence of bivalve mollusks from the mouth of the Raritan River to just past the Route 18 bridge in New Brunswick. […]

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Environmental DNA (eDNA) Assay for Monitoring Recovery of River Herring

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Sara Malone in minigrant, News, R&D Posts, R3C News, RU on the Raritan, Stewardship

Mid-Atlantic populations of river herring (Alosa pseudoharengus, alewife, and A. aestivalis, blueback herring) have declined precipitously in recent years. River herring are listed as “Species of Special Concern” by the National Marine Fisheries Service. With over 1,700 dams in New Jersey, barriers to spawning migration are significant impediments to restoring river herring populations. Over the […]

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SRRI releases State of the Raritan Report, Volume 2

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Sara Malone in data, Initiative Activities, Johnson Chair, News, Public Access, R&D Posts, R3C News, Remediation, Resources, RU on the Raritan, Stewardship, Water Quality

Rutgers University’s Sustainable Raritan River Initiative has released a second report on the status of watershed health for the Raritan River.  The State of the Raritan Report, Volume 2 continues efforts to update key indicators of water quality and watershed health for the Raritan River basin.  The health of the Raritan basin was originally assessed […]

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History of the Raritan River Timeline

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Sara Malone in data, Initiative Activities, News, Public Access, R&D Posts, R3C News, Remediation, Resources, Resources Page Content, RU on the Raritan, Stewardship, Water Quality

During Spring Semester, 2019, Jenny Schneider, a candidate for the Rutgers Public History Program Certificate (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History), developed a dynamic historic timeline of major events and happenings around the Raritan region.  It is a project we hope to continue to develop in the coming semesters. View the timeline here. […]

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history, SAS, Schneider, timeline

Video Series Explores Restoration of the Manalapan Brook Watershed

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Sara Malone in News, R3C News, RU on the Raritan, Stewardship, Video, Water Quality No Comments

An “Restoring the Manalapan Brook Watershed”, a series of videos produced by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, examines restoration efforts within the Manalapan Brook watershed. The Manalapan Brook is part of the Lower Raritan watershed management area (WMA09) in central New Jersey. This video series was developed for New Jersey municipalities, residents, and […]

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R3C Mini-grant Supports Rutgers Undergraduate Internship on Fish Passage Analysis

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Sara Malone in minigrant, News, R&D Posts, R3C News, RU on the Raritan, SOTR_Dams, SOTR_StreamIntegrity, SOTR_ThreatenedEndangeredSpecies, Stewardship

Rutgers Raritan River Consortium (R3C) minigrant funds allowed the expansion of fish passage analysis on the Raritan by hiring Kiera Malone, a Rutgers undergraduate, as a student intern to research the movement patterns of a wide range of fish species that inhabit the Raritan River. In the process of working on this internship, Kiera gained […]

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anadromous fish, fish tagging, NJAmerican Water, NJDEP, NJSWA, R Studio

Assessing Forest Status in the Lower Raritan Watershed

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Sara Malone in minigrant, News, R&D Posts, R3C News, RU on the Raritan, SOTR_CanopyCover, Stewardship, Water Quality

Forest fragmentation is a process by which large forest areas are broken into smaller forest areas. Fragmentation is often a result of human development such as the creation of housing or roads. When fragmentation occurs, forest patches decrease in size. In addition, the amount of forest core decreases and the relative amount of forest edge […]

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Weston Mill Dam Removed from Millstone River

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Sara Malone in Initiative Activities, News, Public Access, Remediation, Resilience, SOTR_Dams, Stewardship, Water Quality

The Department of Environmental Protection – in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association and other partners – is removing the obsolete Weston Mill Dam on the Millstone River between Manville and Franklin Township. The removal of the Weston Mill Dam, also known as the […]

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News

  • R3C Webinars on Recent Raritan Research

  • 2020 and 2021 Raritan River Conferences Canceled

  • Rutgers Raritan River Initiative to partner with NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program on Coastal Watershed Grant

  • Influence of biogeochemistry on the availability of toxic metals in iron-replete New Jersey sediment

  • New video on removal of Weston Mill Dam highlights preservation of historic artifacts

  • A Watershed-Based Approach to Flood Hazard Mitigation in the Raritan Region

Click here for more news! and be sure to check out the Calendar for upcoming activities.

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  • World Wetlands Day
    World Wetlands Day
    Starts: 12:00 am
    Ends: February 2, 2023 - 11:59 pm


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    2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

    Each year since 1997, the Ramsar Secretariat has provided materials to help raise public awareness about the importance and value of wetlands.

    - See more at: http://www.worldwetlandsday.org/about

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  • Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority Meeting
    Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority Meeting
    Starts: 7:30 pm
    Ends: February 27, 2023 - 9:30 pm

    Location: 290 River Road, Princeton, NJ


    Description:

    Authority Board Meeting Schedule

    ­A RESOLUTION SETTING REGULAR MEETING DATES FOR THE STONY BROOK REGIONAL SEWERAGE AUTHORITY FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2016
    IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS ACT

    Resolution No. 2015-78

    BE IT RESOLVED by the Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority:

    That the regular meeting day of the Authority be held on the fourth Monday of each month, except in November, when it will be held on the second Monday, and June and December when the meeting will be held on the third Monday of the month.

    http://www.sbrsa.com/

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  • Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority
    Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority
    Starts: 7:30 pm
    Ends: February 27, 2023 - 9:30 pm

    Location: 50 Polhemus Ln, Bridgewater, NJ 08807, USA


    Description:

    Meetings of the Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority are held the fourth Monday of each month. Meetings are held in the Authority conference room located in the Administrative Office. Open session meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. and there is an opportunity for public participation. Anyone from the public wishing to be heard should arrive promptly for the start of a meeting as the public participation portion is early on the agenda.

    http://srvsa.org/

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