New Jersey Maps its Wetlands. To more efficiently regulate the preservation of its wetlands, New Jersey has developed a GIS basemap accurate to within an acre. August 12, 2010 • ...

And the maps also recommend reclassifying what was once 1.09 acres of land there to now be wetlands because they now are at or below a foot above the local extreme high water - which classifies ...

HOLGATE-- A deal to preserve a former tract of wetlands filled in by Hurricane Sandy on Long Beach Island is back in the works after a preservation group and a developer resumed negotiations.

So it came as little surprise when New Jersey surpassed Texas a few months ago, in the aftermath of Sandy, to become second in the nation in terms of total flood insurance payouts, going back to 1978.

In New Jersey, another force is combining with the rising water levels to drown wetlands — subsidence, or the sinking of the earth's crust throughout the mid-Atlantic region.

By the mid-1970s, 20 percent of New Jersey’s wetlands had been destroyed, with losses as high as 72 percent in Hunterdon County and 50 percent in parts of the Passaic River basin.

These rules are part of Christie’s ongoing attacks on clean water. We must protect NJ’s wetlands and environment from these rollbacks by stopping these new rules that weaken protections.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection reprimanded itself for clearing several acres of wetlands from the Glassboro Wildlife Management Area.

A-5597-02T3; Appellate Division; opinion by Conley, P.J.A.D.; decided and approved for publication November 16, 2004. Before Judges Conley, Braithwaite and Lisa. On appeal from the New Jersey ...

New Jersey’s environment and wetlands are under attack by the Department of Environmental Protection’s new Freshwater Wetlands Rules. These rules would open our wetlands to development and ...