Rally for the Navesink Chock Full of News

In November, Clean Ocean Action hosted Environmental Canine Services (ECS) back to the Navesink River watershed to conduct another pathogen pollution source trackdown investigation. ECS investigated over 90 locations throughout Fair Haven, Middletown, Red Bank, and Rumson, while the NJDEP collected and analyzed water samples from 44 of these locations for fecal coliforms and E. coli. At the end of January, COA and NJDEP met with each municipality to review these results and to discuss actions needed to address any potential sources.

Following these meetings with municipalities, results from the ECS investigation and NJDEP’s water sample analysis will be shared by Dr. Swarna Muthukrishnan (COA) and Bill Heddendorf (NJDEP Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring) at the Rally for the Navesink meeting on January 31st at Bingham Hall, Rumson, from 6:30pm – 8pm.

An exciting living shoreline project along the Navesink River was also discussed by Bill Shadel, Coastal Programs Manager at The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey. Thanks to funding through TNC’s Living Shoreline Grants Program, the Lee Family in Red Bank will be able to replace bulkhead along the waterfront with a living shoreline, which can help to improve water quality and create habitat for aquatic life.