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GARDEN STATE ENVIRONEWS

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{*} DROUGHT RESTRICTIONS ORDERED
{*} IN MONTHS, WE'LL GO DRY, DEP OFFICIALS NOW BELIEVE
{*} PINELANDS PANEL FEARS DROUGHT WILL THREATEN RESERVES
{*} WATER: THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF PROBLEMS
{*} ONLY REFORMS CAN AVERT LONG-TERM WATER SHORTAGE
{*} PETITION OPPOSING W. MILFORD X-TREME HABITAT
{*} SAVE THE RIVER VALE WOODS
{*} SUNDAY BOWHUNTING BILL UPDATE
{*} MOBILIZING THE REGION #356
{*} PINELANDS COMMISSION ADMINISTRATOR IS LEAVING HER POST
{*} PINELANDS PANEL DISCUSSION - MAR 13
{*} WORLD SUSTAINABILITY: REALITIES AND STRATEGIES - MAR 13

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DROUGHT RESTRICTIONS ORDERED

Date: 11 Mar 2002
From: {calt...@thewatershed.org}

NJDEP DROUGHT UPDATE: 03/11/2002

Governor McGreevey declared a statewide water emergency on Monday,
March 4, 2002. Today, Commissioner Campbell announced 'region
specific' water use restrictions today.

Statewide for 2001 rainfall was below normal for 10 out of 12 months,
and has averaged 13.7 inches below normal since June 2001. This has
resulted in dry conditions, which show up as reduced stream flows,
lower lake levels, and declines in ground water levels. These
conditions are also prevalent throughout the region. Bergen, Hudson,
and Passaic Counties declared water emergencies the week of February
18, 2002. Morris County declared an emergency on February 27, 2002.

A "drought watch" had been issued for all of New Jersey on October
30, 2001. A "drought warning" had been issued for New Jersey's
Northwest, Southwest, and Coastal South Drought Regions on November
21, 2001. On December 4th and 5th the State held Drought Hearings to
solicit input on the severity of the situation, its impact upon water
supplies, and on available options that may be used to avert a water
emergency. With the continued insufficiency of precipitation, and with
reservoir levels in the Northeast and Coastal North Drought Regions
being significantly below normal, Commissioner Campbell expanded New
Jersey's Drought Warning on January 24, 2002 to include the Northeast
and Coastal North Drought Regions. Since this time storage in the
Northeast reservoirs has continue to decline, while storage in the
Coastal North reservoirs has improved. The Central Drought Region
remains near normal with reservoir levels only 9.9 % below normal.

New Jersey's Northeast, Central and Coastal North Drought Regions
rely heavily upon reservoirs for water supply, but also utilize wells
in various formations as does the Northwest region. The Coastal South
Drought Region relies heavily on shallow wells for individual domestic
water supply wells, and has wells in confined aquifers for many
municipal water systems. The Southwestern Drought Region relies upon a
mixture on surface water, shallow and confined wells. Click on
"Drought Regions" for additional information.

New Jersey's Northwest and Southwest Drought Regions lie within the
Delaware River Basin. The Delaware River Basin encompasses portions of
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The Delaware River
Basin Commission (DRBC) declared a "drought warning" on November 4,
2001, and put its Drought Operating Plan into effect on December 1,
2001. On December 18, 2001 the DRBC declared a drought emergency. In a
drought emergency under the Drought Operating Plan, New Jersey's
allowable diversion through the D & R Canal has been reduced from 70
million gallons per day (mgd) to 65 mgd, and the allowable average New
York City diversion has been reduced from 560 mgd to 520 mgd. The
target flow in the Delaware River at Montague has been reduced from
1550 cubic feet per second (cfs), and the target flow at Trenton has
been reduced from 2700 cfs. For specifics regarding these reductions
please refer to the Delaware River Basin Commission WebPages at
http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/. Conservation releases from the major
Delaware River Basin reservoirs have been reduced, and Merrill Creek
Reservoir is releasing water to make up for consumptive use of water
by power generation plants within the basin.

The State now has drought restrictions in place, but continues to
stress that indoor water conservation efforts are necessary in order
to reduce demands. Due to the random nature of precipitation in the
past 9 months localized areas may be experiencing some more severe
water supply problems. Please contact your local municipality or water
company concerning any local water use restrictions that may be in
place.

This message will be change periodically as conditions warrant. For
additional information please refer to
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/watersupply. The website also links to the
U.S.G.S., New Jersey District web page for stream flow and ground
water levels.

For full text of the restrictions, please see:
http://www.nj.gov/dep/drought/ao02-05.htm

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# # #

Christine Altomari
Watershed Specialist
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
31 Titus Mill Road
Pennington, NJ 08534
PHONE: (609) 737-3735
FAX: (609) 737-3075
E-MAIL: calt...@thewatershed.org
http://www.thewatershed.org

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IN MONTHS, WE'LL GO DRY, DEP OFFICIALS NOW BELIEVE

Date: 020310
From: http://www.nj.com/

By Anthony S. Twyman, Star-Ledger Staff, March 09, 2002

The reservoirs that provide water for North and Central Jersey will
run out of water in 100 to 180 days, if it does not rain and people
keep using water at the current rate, state officials said yesterday.

State Department of Environmental Protection officials, in a meeting
in Trenton with about 20 environmentalists, business leaders and
industry representatives, revealed the worst case scenario: North
Jersey reservoirs could go dry in 100 days and Central Jersey
reservoirs in 180 days.

The dire prediction comes on the heels of Gov. James E. McGreevey's
statewide drought emergency declaration earlier this week.

The reservoirs that feed water to Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris and
Passaic counties in North Jersey have been hardest hit and are at less
than 30 percent capacity. The state has already ordered some water
transfers to North Jersey from Central Jersey, where supplies are more
plentiful.

State officials would not discuss details of their meeting, which was
closed to the public, but a spokeswoman confirmed the reservoir
projections.

"The projection is considering there is no rain and no change in
use," said Mary Helen Cervantes, a DEP spokeswoman.

To buy more time, on Monday DEP Commissioner Bradley Campbell is
expected to outline a series of water use restrictions, tailored to
each region, likely to include prohibiting people from watering lawns
and washing cars to requiring each state department to devise a water
conservation plan.

The state also is considering tapping emergency water resources such
as Lake Hopatcong on the border of Morris and Sussex counties - a body
of water that is not normally used for drinking water, people who
attended the meeting said.

As the state evaluates water resources at its disposal, it has
discovered that the pipes and pumping stations that could be needed to
feed emergency water supplies to parched regions are not up to par.

Meeting attendees said state officials told them a copper pipe that
brings water from New York to New Jersey via the George Washington
bridge has been stolen by vandals, and that replacing it and repairing
the pumping station could take up to 60 days and cost millions.

The system of pipes and pumping stations that would send water from
Lake Hopatcong into the Morris Canal and then the Rockaway River also
is in disrepair, state officials told those at the meeting.

The restrictions Campbell is considering imposing on Monday include:

Prohibiting the testing of wells and aquifers, a process that often
wastes thousands of gallons of water. Prohibiting lawn watering with
exceptions for: newly seeded or sodded grass, which could be watered
for 30 to 45 days at a rate of 45 minutes a day; fertilizer and
pesticide spraying, which would be allowed for two days for 45 minutes
a day; and construction related projects, to prevent soil erosion.
Allowing people to water ornamental plants, trees, shrubs, vegetables
and flower gardens, as long as the water is applied with a bucket,
water can, hose or special irrigation technology that uses less water.

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Anthony S. Twyman covers the environment. He can be reached at
atw...@starledger.com or at (609) 989- 0322.
Copyright 2002 The Star-Ledger

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PINELANDS PANEL FEARS DROUGHT WILL THREATEN RESERVES

Date: 020309
From: http://www.app.com/

By Kirk Moore, Staff Writer, Asbury Park Press, 3/09/02

Pemberton Township - With New Jersey in the grip of drought - and water

supplies especially acute in urban northern counties - state Pinelands
officials already are worried there might be calls for tapping the
forest's
underground water reserves.

Pinelands Commissioner Jerrold Jacobs said he's wondering, since "the
Pinelands sits on top of the single largest potable water supply in New
Jersey, (whether) some people might take aim at that."

Seeing the Pinelands as a font of water for cities is a recurring theme
in
the region's history. It's why 19th-century industrialist Joseph Wharton

assembled an estate of 100,000 acres around Batsto village in Burlington

County - to sell water to Philadelphia.

New Jersey lawmakers headed that plan off with an early ban on water
exports, and today Wharton's property is a state forest bearing his
name.

Protecting the purity of surface and ground water was a central
argument
for passing the 1979 Pinelands Protection Act and its draconian
restrictions
on building and private property rights in the forest.

Export of Pinelands water more than 10 miles beyond the region's zoning

boundaries was forbidden by the Legislature in 1981. For the last 12
years,
the Department of Environmental Protection has held to a policy of not
approving major new water withdrawals from the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer

that lies just beneath the surface of the Pinelands, commission
officials
said at their monthly meeting yesterday.

Population growth in coastal counties, especially in Cape May County,
and
concerns about lower groundwater levels in some Pinelands areas led Cape
May
legislators to get funding for a study of the Kirkwood-Cohansey system.
That
research will start soon, said John Stokes, an assistant executive
director
of the Pinelands Commission.

Even without the restriction on exporting water from the Pinelands, the

Kirkwood-Cohansey could not be a solution to the state's water supply
problems, Stokes stressed.

"In a drought, the immediate step is to reduce consumption, not
increase
supply," Stokes said.

It takes years to plan and build major water supply projects, he added.

The Pinelands Commission has a representative on the state water supply

committee, and "no one has raised this yet to us," said Annette
Barbaccia,
the commission's executive director.

In 1989, the commission adopted a policy recommending against public
water
supply withdrawals from the Kirkwood-Cohansey, recalled longtime
commissioner Stephen V. Lee III. The plan was to revisit that policy in
five
years but it was never done, he added.

Meanwhile, the DEP's water supply officials have held to that policy,
Stokes noted. But water supply legislation passed in 1993 also
recommended
looking at the aquifer as a potential source, so it's time for a
comprehensive review of water policy, Lee said.

"I'd much rather address it before something forces us to," Jacobs
agreed.

In the 1960s, geologist Edward C. Rhodehamel calculated the volume of
underground water in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer at around 18 trillion

gallons. Popularized for years by journalists and environmental
activists,
that figure conjures visions of a virtually untapped reservoir.

But scientists are just beginning to understand the linkages between
groundwater and the surface water that supports plant and wildlife
communities in the Pinelands. Some experts worry that major withdrawals
of
ground or surface water to supply towns could lower the supply so much
that
the ecosystem gets disrupted, with unforeseeable results.

In the Pinelands, Stokes said, "water is connected to everything else."

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Kirk Moore: (732) 557-5728
Copyright (C) 1997-2002 IN Jersey

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WATER: THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF PROBLEMS

Date: 020310
From: http://www.nj.com

LACK OF RAINFALL IS JUST ONE REASON THE WATER IS BEING SAPPED FROM
JERSEY
FROM DEVELOPMENT TO PIPELINES, THERE'S NO SHORTAGE OF PROBLEMS

By Rudy Larini And Kitta MacPherson, Star-Ledger Staff, March 10, 2002

Like a great Rube Goldberg device, New Jersey's water supply system is
a
giant, almost absurdly complex system of reservoirs, rivers, aquifers
and
interconnecting pipelines.

On any given day, the system is capable of spurting out 1.75 billion
gallons of water, satisfying the 1 billion gallons needed to slake the
state's ever-growing daily thirst.

With 6,450 miles of rivers, 24,000 acres of public lakes, 900,000 acres
of
freshwater and tidal wetlands, 120 miles of ocean coastline, and 420
miles
of marshy coastline, the state is awash in water.

Yet New Jersey is in the midst of what may turn out to be a record
drought.

If dry conditions persist and people do not conserve water, the state
will
run out by July 1, according to Dennis Hart, who was named state drought

coordinator last week. "I'm talking about a situation that would be
severely
adverse to fire protection and public health," Hart said.

While the reason for the drought has focused on rainfall - New Jersey
has
gotten about 8 to 10 inches less than its normal 44 inches this year -
many
states manage on less. Many at the state Department of Environmental
Protection in Trenton worry the problem goes beyond the weather.

Some of the problems being examined by state water authorities include:

The way water authorities calculate supply and demand may be
inaccurate,
overstating supply and underestimating population.

Because of the cost, the capacity of the state's water supply system
has
not been expanded to meet population increases. Instead, the state
relies on
rationing in times of drought, according to state planning documents.
Lots of water is wasted. Water from flushed toilets and a leaky
infrastructure is never recovered.

No one is sure what the impact of extensive development has been on the

state's gravity-fed system of reservoirs conceived and designed decades
ago
when watershed areas were pristine and unpopulated.

In Colorado, a population of 4.3 million - about half New Jersey's -
lives
off 17 inches of rain a year in a semi-arid climate. Water supply
authorities capture mountain snowpack and dam it, accessing it
year-round.

"We're actually in the midst of a moderate drought ourselves," said
Jeff
Brislawn, who chairs Colorado's drought task force, formed after a
severe
dry season in 1981. "We have below average snowpack in all the basins
statewide, which is somewhat unusual."

Since 1996, the bible for New Jersey's state water authorities has been
the
Statewide Water Supply Plan, a master plan written by scientists and
engineers from the state environmental agency over a period of about 12
months. It followed a 1982 report that spurred the construction of
reservoirs and pipelines the state relies on to this day.

New Jersey's water supply, according to the document, was not built to
be
plentiful in emergency circumstances. According to the state plan, which

still guides state officials' thinking, conservation was always part of
the
picture.

"New Jersey, as with other states, cannot afford to finance water
supplies
large enough to ensure water use may continue unabated during droughts,"
the
report said.

Steve Nieswand, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in West
Trenton, helped write the report when he worked at the state
environmental
agency. The thought of expanding the state's reservoir system was never
seriously considered, he said.

While it might be great to drive 65 mph to the Shore in the middle of
the
tourist season, few people want to pay what it would cost to widen the
Garden State Parkway, Nieswand said in explaining the thinking that went

into the document. "How much are you willing to pay for it, both
financially
and environmentally? There's a limit."

Though some criticized the report from the beginning, others are now
spotting flaws in light of the current drought.

All estimates and planning decisions in the document are based on the
worst-case scenario being equal to conditions experienced during the New

Jersey drought of 1964, with its record low rainfall. Weather
authorities,
such as David Robinson, the state climatologist, believe the present
drought
is looking to be worse.

The state planning report acknowledged this inherent weakness:
"Insufficient long-term precipitation records exist to prove that the
1960s
drought is the worst we can expect in the future. Thus there is an
unknown
risk level. ... The ability of the state's water supplies to withstand a

drought significantly worse than the 1960s has not been investigated."

The report concedes that its assessment of the available supply of
water on
a given day, known as "safe yield," could be better, based as it is on
average rainfall patterns. It also relied on inaccurate population
predictions that said the state population would not reach 8.25 million
until 2010. The state's population at present, according to 2000 U.S.
Census
figures, is 8.4 million.

Using these figures, the authors of the report concluded that water
supplies would remain sufficient through 2040. As a result, several
capacity-enhancing projects, such as reservoir expansion projects in the

Newark watershed and in Pennsylvania, were shelved.

"It was a judgment call, and the judgment call was wrong," said Ella
Filippone, executive director of the Passaic River Coalition and a
longtime
critic of the state plan.

The state environmental agency, at the behest of its new commissioner,
Bradley Campbell, has embarked on rewriting the 1996 study, focusing
first
on improving drought procedures and assessments, said Filippone, who
sits on
the agency's water supply advisory council.

Hart, the agency's drought coordinator, said the state would be
focusing on
ways to recover wastewater, water that is treated at sewage plants and
discharged into the ocean. Though some water companies already do this,
officials will be investigating ways to do this on a massive scale.
Millions
of gallons of water, if properly tested and treated, could be safely
reused,
he said.

Another category of wasted water, known as "unallocated water" is lost
through the leaky pipes characteristic of some of the state's
increasingly
creaky waterworks infrastructure. In some cases, the figure could be as
high
as 25 percent of all water flowing through a system, according to the
state
report.

Some believe that the report and all forms of state water management
planning have not adequately accounted for the massive development of
former
farmland and forested tracts statewide.

Last week, the New Jersey Sierra Club released an analysis charging
that
overdevelopment has robbed the state's reservoirs and groundwater
supplies
of hundreds of billions of gallons a year.

Such huge losses, calculated to be some 300 billion gallons, according
to
Jeff Tittel, the environmental group's director, are caused by paving
over
the natural landscape. "Sprawl and overdevelopment are robbing New
Jersey of
its precious groundwater," he said. "With over 40 percent of New Jersey
developed, we are creating a macadam desert."

When forested land is developed, paved surfaces and rooftops create
large
volumes of storm water runoff, Tittel said. Such runoff does not
recharge
groundwater supplies or replenish reservoirs but flows out to sea.

There are research efforts under way by state and federal scientists to

assess the impact of development, including the effects of catch basins
in
new developments.

As bad as things are, some utility officials have noted that sound
long-term planning, which resulted in 1980s-era improvements in the
state's
ability to supply and deliver water, has lessened the impact of what
could
have been an even more critical water shortage.

"This drought is worse than '64. Fortunately we built more facilities
and
we have more water than we did in '64, but the drought is worse," said
Phil
White, a spokesman for the North Jersey District Water Supply
Commission, a
public water utility serving northern New Jersey.

Five new reservoirs were created in New Jersey after the mid-'60s
drought,
including the state's largest, Round Valley, a 55 billion-gallon
impoundment
that opened in 1966. The last reservoir project in the state was the 4.7

billion-gallon Manasquan Reservoir in Monmouth County in 1990.

One of the more crucial water supply improvements was the Wanaque South

Project in the late 1980s following a severe drought in 1980 and 1981.
Wanaque South, a joint venture of North Jersey District and the private
United Water Co., included a new reservoir, the 7 billion-gallon
Monksville
in Passaic County, and new and upgraded pumping stations along the
Pompton
and Ramapo rivers. It increased the so-called "safe yield" of the
Wanaque
Reservoir water supply system by 79 million gallons a day. "Safe yield"
is a
term hydrologists use to describe the amount of water a system can
deliver
on a daily basis.

White said that without the Wanaque South project, the Wanaque water
supply
system would be dry by now under current drought conditions.

"We wouldn't have any water at all," he said. "We'd be minus if it
weren't
for that Wanaque South project."

Maureen Duffy, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey- American Water Co.,
which
supplies about a million residents throughout New Jersey, said diverting

water from the underused Manasquan Reservoir has meant that two other
reservoirs have remained at comfortable levels despite the drought.

"Planning has put us in okay shape," Duffy said.

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ONLY REFORMS CAN AVERT LONG-TERM WATER SHORTAGE

Date: 11 Mar 2002
From: "Robin O'Hearn" {roh...@earthlink.net}

By Alex Nussbaum, Staff Writer, Bergen Record, March 11, 2002

New Jersey is outgrowing its water supply. And without sweeping
reforms, the state could be facing long-term shortages - drought or no
drought.

The need for more water has become a battle cry for state officials,
who plan to issue drought restrictions today. Meanwhile, experts are
floating ideas for everything from new reservoirs in the Highlands to
pipelines across central New Jersey to seeding clouds to make rain.

"We're heading to a point where the limits on growth won't be a
recession, it won't be private investment, it'll be the availability
of the drinking water supply," said Bradley M. Campbell, New Jersey's
commissioner of environmental protection. "Even if we get a return to
normal historical measures of rainfall, if communities are going to
continue to grow, we're going to need to protect our drinking water."

The parched visions should come as no surprise. The State Plan, the
blueprint for managing population growth, noted last year that New
Jersey would need to spend $2 billion just to patch leaks and clean up
contamination in the system that currently supplies its 8 million
residents. It could cost another $3.3 billion to accommodate growth
over the next 20 years.

The state has predicted that by 2040, water use would rise by nearly
80 percent, to 1.8 billion gallons daily.

For now, the drought is making it difficult to scrape together even
the 1 billion gallons of water the state consumes each day.

Teterboro recorded 0.19 inches of rain over the weekend, but the
driest six-month period in state history has exacerbated the troubles
of a system already stretched and frayed like an old suit.

Experts cite several factors. New homes sprawl like kudzu around
Ringwood, West Milford, and other towns that host parts of the water
supply, adding to pollution. In Paterson and other cities with aging
plumbing, leaky pipes waste as much as one gallon in five. Some
critics, meanwhile, fault state and utility officials for letting the
problems mount.

"For all the planning that we do, New Jersey often fails to follow
through on those plans, and one of the areas that we've been woefully
short is in water supply," said Patrick O'Keefe, head of the
association that represents developers and contractors in New Jersey.
"And it's only in a drought that we realize we haven't added to
capacity, we haven't pursued plans that were rejected."

And this drought, like past ones, is likely to force officials to
act.

In the mid-1960s, New Jersey's "drought of the millennium" sucked
streams dry and begat the Round Valley Reservoir, 55 billion gallons
in the Hunterdon County countryside meant to ease the state's water
fears.

After 1982, a drought that made hogging water a criminal offense gave
rise to the 7 billion-gallon Monksville Reservoir, the latest answer
to northern New Jersey's drinking needs.

Now, as the Wanaque Reservoir dwindles to a trickle, the current
crisis is bringing an "attitude adjustment" to state policy as
Governor McGreevey takes over, said Ella Filippone of the state's
Water Supply Advisory Council.

"This is partly the fault of the Whitman administration, but also the
fault of the Florio administration," she said of the two former
governors. "There has been no attention to water supply as far as
quantity is concerned. Their approach to groundwater was pathetic."

Pipes and interconnections were allowed to rot, she said. Wells were
left contaminated.

New Jersey is hardly alone. Water disputes are flaring around the
globe, from the Chattahoochee River in the Southeastern United States
to the Colorado River in the West to the Middle East to Bolivia, where
a brief, bloody civil war broke out over privatization of the water
supply.

"The widening inequity [of water supplies] is already beginning to
destabilize certain regions of the world," New York author Jeffrey
Rothfelder wrote last year in his book on global water battles, "Every
Drop For Sale."

"National security cabals that are focused solely on water diplomacy
have quietly been formed in almost every major country," he wrote.

Rothfelder cited a warning from the vice president of the World Bank,
Ismail Serageldin, who worried that a "world war will be fought over
water."

Back in the United States, communities are planning for long-haul
shortages that could last beyond the current drought. Pennsylvania is
considering a statewide water conservation plan, after predictions
that some counties could run out in coming years. New York City has
moved to buy several small lakes in upstate New York to supplement its
reservoirs in the region.

Last fall, New Jersey environmental officials threatened to go to
court over a massive power plant proposed for Rockland County, N.Y.,
just over the Mahwah border. The plant could spur more building along
the Ramapo River, a water source for hundreds of thousands in both
states that is already stretched beyond its capacities, Trenton
officials warned.

In the meantime, the hunt for solutions extends from Wildwood's
beaches to Bergen County's crowded golf courses.

Campbell, the Department of Environmental Protection commissioner,
says the McGreevey administration will do more to keep builders away
from water sources such as the Wanaque and Monksville reservoirs. It
will press developers to pave less of their land so rainwater can
percolate down to groundwater.

McGreevey wants to give communities more legal tools to fight sprawl,
steering development to established cities and suburbs instead of
pristine land, Campbell said.

The drought may even breathe life into long-abandoned water projects
like the pipeline that was supposed to connect the Round Valley
Reservoir to supplies in the state's densely-populated northeast. The
pipeline, proposed with the reservoir in the 1960s, fell victim to
political, fiscal, and environmental challenges and was never built.
It could have carried 70 million to 90 million gallons a day
northward.

Today, Round Valley is nearly brimming over with 90 billion gallons.
The Wanaque, the reservoir that Round Valley was supposed to
supplement, is nearly two-thirds empty.

While the Wanaque can't tap Round Valley, it does have the backups
built after the 1980s drought, the Monksville reservoir and pumping
stations that draw on the Pompton and Ramapo rivers.

Still, Joseph Bella, executive director of the utility that serves
Paterson, Passaic, Clifton, and other towns, hopes that the state
revisits the pipeline project and finds money to patch other aging
water systems.

"I don't think there's anybody that says it wouldn't make a major
impact," Bella said.

The infrastructure has other holes, especially in the network of
pipes and pumping stations designed to let utilities share water in an
emergency. A Newark pumping station, for instance, ,needs repairs and
transfers only a third as much water as it should. A station meant to
draw from Lake Hopatcong - a supply of last resort in North Jersey -
is inoperable, environmentalists say.

Some think the growing population will eventually need a new
reservoir. The rugged Highlands area in the northwest could be a good
site. But others say the cost and lack of open land make that idea
improbable.

In South Jersey, some are seeking relief underground. Wildwood could
be one blueprint for water companies trying to create new supplies.
During rainy periods, the resort town taps wells five miles inland and
stores the excess water in a vast underground pocket that runs beneath
the barrier island.

During dry periods, or in the summer, when vacationers swell the
town's ranks, Wildwood draws the water back up. Taking the water
directly from the wells at peak demand would require a big pumping
station and pipelines that would be little used the rest of the year,
water officials say.

Wildwood's system, inaugurated in 1967, was one of the first of its
kind. South Jersey now has eight more, and at least five others are in
development. Water companies in Toms River, among other areas, plan to
copy the idea. It's less feasible in North Jersey, where the hard rock
underground makes it difficult to inject the water.

Officials also want to look into ways to recycle treated wastewater
from sewers. As much as half of the so-called "gray water" is dumped
into the ocean - a huge waste, regulators say. Instead, some want to
reuse the resource in factories or to irrigate golf courses.

Reducing demand, meanwhile, could be at least as important as finding
new supplies. The state needs to do more to educate the public on
saving water, Campbell says.

Some want to be a little more forceful. Taha Marhaba, a New Jersey
Institute of Technology water expert, says the state should make
water- saving shower heads or toilets mandatory. Right now, they're
required only in new or remodeled homes.

The state climatologist, David Robinson, even inquired about seeding
clouds, mostly on a lark. But the state's relatively mild weather and
low terrain don't make for good rain harvests, which require cold
temperatures and mountains with powerful updrafts.

"We have been exceedingly fortunate in dodging bullets in past
droughts," Robinson said. "People are going to have to start thinking
about not only
what they do at their house, but multiplying it by 8 million and
thinking about how much water we're all using."

* * *

# # #

Robin O'Hearn
Membership & Outreach Coordinator
Skylands CLEAN, Inc.
Phone: 973-616-1006
Fax: 973-616-8838
roh...@skyclean.org

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PETITION OPPOSING W. MILFORD X-TREME HABITAT

Date: 11 Mar 2002
From: "Robin O'Hearn" {roh...@earthlink.net}

We have placed a petition opposing X-Treme Habitat on
Petitiononline.com. Individuals can electronically sign the petition
with their name and email address, their home address is optional.
CLEAN will collect the signatures and send them to Trenton. I have
attached a copy of the petition below.

The link to the site is:

http://www.petitiononline.com/noatvs/petition.html

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Petition: Oppose Motorcycle and ATV Park on State Park Land in West
Milford, New Jersey (X-Treme Habitat)

We, the undersigned, do hereby petition Richard Barker, the Assistant
Director of the Commission of Parks and Forestry, to reject the
proposal by X-Treme Habitat to build a park for Motorcycles and ATVs
on the 769 acre site of the former Jungle Habitat in Norvin Green
State Forest.

This land was purchased through the Green Acres Program for $1.45
million to protect the watershed of the Wanaque Reservoir, and is an
integral piece of the greenway through the Highlands. This property is
a critical piece of the greenway that includes Bear Mountain through
Harriman State Park, Sterling Forest, Long Pond Ironworks State Park,
and Norvin Green State Forest. X-Treme Habitat's motor-cross theme
park would be located in the center of this vital 40- mile greenway.

The property contains the headwaters of two important stream systems,
the Morsetown Brook which flows into Greenwood Lake, Hewitt Brook, and
an unnamed tributary to Hewitt, which flow into the Monksville and
Wanaque Reservoirs. Hewitt Brook and its tributary are classified as
trout production, thus they are considered pristine waters and receive
the highest level of governmental protection. X-Treme habitat will
have a negative impact on their water quality due to erosion, runoff,
and non-point source pollution from motor oils and gasoline. The
forest will be fragmented, causing destruction of critical habitat for
threatened bird species, and displacement of wildlife, including
bears. The noise from this facility will negatively impact residential
areas nearby. The noise, visual scarring of the property, and
potential injury to hikers from motorized vehicles will severely
impact four major hiking trails in the vicinity.

A facility such as X-Treme Habitat is in conflict with the purpose of
the State's Green Acres Program, whose purpose is to protect open
space for the people of New Jersey for conservation and recreational
purposes for all New Jersey residents, not for private use. State
parkland was bought for open space, not development. As taxpayers, we
the undersigned object to the use of this taxpayer purchased State
property for this intent and purpose.

Name:
Street Address:
City, State, Zip:
Telephone number:
Email Address:

. . .

Return To:
STOP X-TREME HABITAT
c/o Skylands CLEAN, Inc.
POB 85
Ringwood NJ 07456
Tel: 973-616-1006
E-mail: cl...@skyclean.org
http://www.skyclean.org

* * *

Regards,
Robin O'Hearn
Membership & Outreach Coordinator
Skylands CLEAN, Inc.
Phone: 973-616-1006
Fax: 973-616-8838
roh...@skyclean.org

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SAVE THE RIVER VALE WOODS

Date: 10 Mar 2002
From: "Bergen SWAN" {berge...@sprynet.com}

FORTY-FOUR ACRES OF PRISTINE WATERSHED FOREST IN RIVER VALE
ARE STILL THREATENED WITH DEVELOPMENT!

The woods are on the North and South sides of Poplar Road and act as
a buffer to the adjacent Lake Tappan Reservoir. United Properties
Group is asking the River Vale Planning Board for approval to replace
these woods with over 100 single and multi-family homes. Over two
hundred people came to the February 25th Planning Board meeting and
their presence was a powerful statement against sprawl and for
watershed preservation. Please come to the next meetings to speak up
for our community and environment.

WATERSHED FORESTS CONSERVE WATER SUPPLY!

Save these dates!

Planning Board Meetings at River Vale Town Hall,
406 River Vale Road at 8:00 p.m.:

March 18th
April 15th
May 20th
June 17th
July 15th

For more information on the campaign to save the woods or to get
involved please contact Hackensack River Keeper at (201) 692-8440 or
http://www.hackensackriverkeeper.org

Please send the letter below to Governor McGreevey!

* * *

Today's Date:

Governor James E. McGreevey
State of New Jersey
Post Office Box 001
Trenton, NJ 08625

Re: Call for Immediate Moratorium on Building on Endangered Watershed
Buffer Lands

Dear Governor McGreevey:

As you are aware, watershed buffer forests help to protect the
quality of the New Jersey's water supply. They conserve groundwater
and aquifer recharge areas, thus assuring water supply quantity. Their
wetlands and woodlands help control flooding and erosion. In some
parts of our state, they are the last refuges for wildlife and provide
the only vistas of scenic beauty for the community's residents.

I wholeheartedly approve of your Administration's plans to prioritize
the protection of watershed buffer lands through New Jersey's Green
Acres Program. Because of the drought emergency, the importance of
preserving these lands has been made all the more urgent.

In Bergen County, where the reservoirs are now thoroughly depleted
and the roads and other infrastructure are already severely
overburdened, environmentalists, elected officials and other concerned
citizens have been struggling for 15 years to prevent the last of the
Upper Hackensack River watershed forests from being replaced by
sprawl. Currently, United Properties Group, the real estate division
of United Water New Jersey, is advancing plans for development of over
one hundred townhouse units and luxury homes on 26 acres of a 44-acre
forested tract in River Vale, NJ. This development will displace
mature forests and wetlands that represent the last of their kind. The
River Vale Planning Board is meeting shortly and, without assistance
from your Administration, may be forced to consider and finalize this
development plan.

In light of these concerns, and at a time of an impending, severe
summer drought, I implore you to impose an immediate moratorium on all
proposed development on lands that 1. Directly recharge a reservoir,
aquifer or well, or, 2. Drain to a water body that, in turn, serves as
a source for ANY reservoir, aquifer or well.

I hope that with your intercession, owners of significant watershed
buffer forests such as the 44-acre site in River Vale, will
participate fully in good-faith negotiations for the public purchase
of these important lands. This will ensure that they can continue to
provide all of their critical environmental functions, the most
important being the recharging of our essential water supplies.

Thank you for your timely attention to this request.

Sincerely,
[your name & address]

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If you prefer to fax or e-mail your letter to the Governor, note the
following:

Fax Number: 609-292-3454

E-mail via the comments box at this link:
http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html

Please send copies of your letter to the following:

Senator Jon Corzine
One Gateway Center, 11th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 645-3030
FAX: (973) 645-0502

Bergen County Executive William "Pat" Schuber
One Bergen County Plaza
Floor 5 Rm. 580
Hackensack, NJ 07601
wpsc...@co.bergen.nj.us

Senator Gerald Cardinale
350 Madison Avenue, Cresskill, NJ 07626
SenCa...@njleg.org

Assemblyman John Rooney
Valley Office Park, 436 Old Hook Rd., Emerson, NJ 07630
AsmR...@njleg.org

Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk
220 Kinderkamack Road, Suite E
Westwood, NJ 07675

Mayor Raymond Darakjian
Township of River Vale
406 Rivervale Road
River Vale, NJ 07675

President Jeanne M. Fox
State of NJ Board of Public Utilities
2 Gateway Center
Newark, NJ 07102
Fax: 973-648-4195

Commissioner Bradley Campbell
NJDEP
401 E. State Street
7th Floor, East Wing
POB 402
Trenton, NJ 08625-0402
Fax 609-292-7695

Mr. Martin McHugh
Acting Counsel
Office of the Commissioner
NJDEP
401 East State Street, 7th Floor
East Wing
Trenton, NJ 08625

Mr. Antoine Kuhn
200 Old Hook Road
Harrington Park, NJ 07640-1799
Telephone 201 767 9300

Hackensack Riverkeeper
1000 River Road, T090C
Teaneck, NJ 07666

Bergen SWAN
Post Office Box 217
Westwood, NJ 07675

* * *

Lori Charkey, Co-Director
Bergen SWAN
201-666-1877
201-269-6765 (w)

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SUNDAY BOWHUNTING BILL UPDATE

Date: 11 Mar 2002
From: Stu Chaifetz {vega...@hnva.net}

Dear friends,

This morning was the hearing for the Sunday Bowhunting bill. In the
end, the bill was "held", which means that it was not voted on. It
obviously did not have the support to pass the Agriculture committee
in it's present form, which is wonderful. However, an amendment was
put forth that would exclude parks from Sunday hunting. The sponsor of
the bill was not there, so it was held for further discussion.

This is not a complete victory for us, but a victory none the less!
And I want to thank all of those people who have written, called and
who attended the hearing this morning. if you had not worked so hard,
this bill may have been released from committee. The future of this
bill is not certain. It is possible that it will come back again, and
when it does, we will be ready to fight it.

An interesting thing of note was that no one from Fish and Game
appeared at the hearing. This is the first time that I have ever seen
them miss a hearing for a pro-hunting bill. Perhaps they were afraid
if they did attend they would have to answer some questions that they
would rather not, such as why they are clear cutting 400 acres of
state land for the purpose of creating food for deer, when they say
that they are trying to reduce the deer herd.

I know that they read the Sunday bowhunting alert that I sent out
last week in which I wrote about this disaster, and I know that they
will read this one as well. Let me assure you and them that we will
not just sit by and let this massive devastation happen. By their own
actions, Fish and Game has once again exposed their hypocrisy.

In addition to this, Fish and Game is increasing deer in deer
management zone 24, which just happens to touch the districts of
Senators Bark and Connors, who are members of the Senate Ag committee.
Sue Russel, my colleague with the League, wrote the following:

"Even as Division of Fish and Wildlife staff and hunter-clients
testify that Sunday bowhunting is "needed" to control white-tail
populations, DFW is coming under fire for deliberately increasing the
number of deer per square mile in Deer Management Zone (DMZ) 24, which
is partially in Committee Co-Chair Martha Bark's District 8. Ms. Bark
has supported recent controversial deer-kill bills.

Part of DMZ 24 is in Committee member Leonard Connor's district 8.

At a November 21, 2001 Endangered and Nongame Species Program
Advisory Committee meeting, a conservationist "expressed concern and
requested an explanation for the planned in [deer] population for Zone
24 . . ."

DF&W employee Dan Ferrigno replied:

"Zone 24 is currently at an estimated 13 deer per mile and is under
minor adjustment with a goal of increasing the population by 5% in an
effort to sustain the desired 15 deer/mile population."*

The animals are being managed, like crops, for "recreational"
hunting.

Similarly, under a system called fee-hunting (farmers charge from $50
to $450 per hunter, per day), agricultural lands in New Jersey are
managed for increased deer. Legislators who receive complaints from
farmers may be surprised to learn that USDA's South Jersey RC&D
Council, Inc., instructs farmers how to plant preferred habitat for
deer, geese, turkeys and other species deemed "pests" by the Farm
Bureau.

For obvious reasons, continued management of white-tailed deer for
"optimum sustainable yield," or an artificial surplus for hunters, and
annihilating these animals where DF&W management becomes problematic
for everyone else, is ethically untenable.

The Sunday Hunting Bill, part of an unprecedented power and land grab
by DF&W and allied agencies, should be voted down. The committee
should begin the public's business of reconstituting the state
wildlife agency, ridding it of pervasive gun industry influence, and
immediately halting deer enhancement, or farming, projects.

Sue Russell
Co-Founder League of Animal Protection Voters

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*Endangered and Nongame Species Program Advisory Committee. November
21, 2001. Meeting Minutes.

* * *

Stu Chaifetz
http://www.HonorandNonViolence.com

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MOBILIZING THE REGION #356

Date: 11 Mar 2002
From: Tri-State Transportation Campaign {ts...@tstc.org}

[Excerpt: Full text at http://www.gsenet.org/newsstnd/mtr.htm]

THIS WEEK'S NEWS, March 11, 2002

. . .

AMID NEW CANCER EVIDENCE, NJ TRANSIT RENEGES ON PUBLIC HEALTH PLEDGE

In late February, the Star-Ledger reported that NJ Transit has
decided not to purchase low-sulfur fuel or install particulate filters
on 853 new commuter buses, until at least July 2003. NJ Transit said
the move will save $16.2 million in next year's budget. More at
http://www.tstc.org/bulletin/20020311/mtr35604.htm

. . .

TOLL ROAD CZAR LIKELY FOR JERSEY

Newly appointed NJ Turnpike Authority director James Lapolla will
likely head the Garden State Parkway as well. It appears that former
director Lewis Thurston will not be replaced and that Gov. McGreevey
will combine the Turnpike and Parkway agencies, as has been discussed
for years. more at tstc.org
{http://www.tstc.org/bulletin/20020311/mtr35608.htm}

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TOP STORY

. . .

NJ TRANSIT'S NEW BOSS

George Warrington is jumping from the helm of one ailing railroad -
Amtrak - to take charge of New Jersey Transit's $3 billion fiscal gap.
In spite of Governor McGreevey's promise to "change the way business
is done in Trenton,"Warrington's appointment completes a slate of
transportation appointments that, on its face, may promise little new
or different in Garden State transportation agencies' mission and
focus.

Warrington had been at NJTransit for ten years about a decade ago,
then served as a deputy commissioner for NJDOT before moving to
Amtrak. After Tom Downs, who had been the NJDOT commissioner, left
Amtrak, Warrington became its chief executive. NJ Transit and Amtrak
indeed have a rapidly spinning revolving door between them. NJDOT's
most recent commissioner, James Weinstein, became Amtrak's chief of
the Northeast Corridor in January, the post Warrington held before
rising to the railroad's top job. Rumors are that Jeff Warsh, the
recently deposed NJTransit chief, has his eye on the top Amtrak job.

While Warrington was at Amtrak, Congress and its Amtrak Reform
Council set increasingly strict and unrealistic goals for the national
railroad (to achieve self-sufficiency by December 2002). Warrington
initially claimed he would meet these goals, probably extending the
showdown on what to do with the railroad. More recently, Warrington
has been more spirited and combative - only a month ago, he claimed
that he would lay of 1,000 workers and cut service on 18 lines in
October if Congress did not ante up $1.2 billion, rather than the
smaller appropriation in the Bush 2003 budget. Warrington had promised
the Amtrak board of directors that he would stay to see through these
cutbacks, until the end of 2002. Whether he will take the same
layoff-and-service cutback approach to NJTransit's budget problems
remains to be seen.

NJ Transit will also have to grapple with Warrington's recent
employer over some key issues. Continuation of some sort of east coast
inter-city railroad is vital to NJTransit, since Amtrak maintains the
Northeast Corridor. NJ Transit has always paid dearly for its commuter
trains' heavy use of the line (now, $31 million annually), and
observers say that unsafe overcrowding on trains for the two years
preceding September 11 was caused by Amtrak's insistence on
maintaining parking slots for trains that didn't exist during peak
periods at New York Penn Station. That deal was negotiated by
NJTransit's rail operations chief while he worked at Amtrak. In
January, Transit solved much of the peak overcrowding problem by
adding more trains, using up some of the agency's future slots needed
to accommodate new service on the Montclair connection and the Penn
Station demand the Secaucus Transfer station will bring.

During his first year in office, Warrington should keep this list in
mind:

Do's

- Re-examine expansion plans and forego rail projects that make
little sense from a land use or ridership standpoint, like
extensions or new lines into northwestern NJ and eastern
Pennsylvania.

- Finish an EIS for the passenger rail tunnel under the Hudson River,
end bickering with the MTA over its terminus, and move to full
funding and construction;

- Come to an agreement with the freight railroads about what lines
will have passenger service, and include more right-of-way to
ensure that the West Shore Line will have passenger service in the
future.

- Offer at least as much service to urban stations as suburban
stations during peak hours.

- Aggressively market Transitchek to NJ employers.

- With the Governor's Sprawl Council, draft legislation to give
residents a tax credit or deduction for living where they work or
taking transit to jobs.

- Bid out fuel contracts specifying ultra-low sulfur diesel
immediately and switch to a clean non-diesel fuel in the next bus
purchase.

- Improve the reliability of bus and rail service, employing
pro-consumer measures such as more information about connections,
cleaner coaches and bathrooms, feeder shuttles, and station
amenities.

- Obtain funds to undertake short-term capacity measures at NY Penn
Station, such as lengthening platforms 1-4.

- Come up to speed on ADA repairs.

- De-emphasize construction of expensive parking lots and decks for
bus and rail riders and focus on other modes of access to stations
and bus stops.

Don'ts

- Try not to strand passengers for hours without lights, information
or a way to get off/home.

- Stop using capital funds for operating expenses;

- Don't even think of using the "Zone of Rate Freedom" index to raise
fares annually.

We wish him luck. He'll need it.

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ALERTS AND FEATURED LINKS

Star-Ledger: What NJ Transit Needs
http://www.njo.com/opinion/ledgereditorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0
/101584140555929.xml}

Journal of American Medicine: Long-term exposure to particulate air
pollution is an important risk factor for cardiopulmonary and lung
cancer mortality - abstract:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n9/abs/joc11435.html

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

March 14, 6:30-9:30pm Public meeting and information session on
NJDOT's plans for Route 17. Bergen Mall Auditorium (lower level),
Route 4 East at Forest Ave., Paramus. 609-530-5001

April 15, 16 & 17, TransAction 2002, 26th Annual NJ State
Transportation Conference and Expo. Tropicana Resort Hotel, Casino and
Conference Center - Atlantic City. For information: 908-903-1077

April 22, Earth Day/Trenton Bike to Work Day sponsored by the Trenton
Cycling Revolution. 609-394-8018

* * *

Contributing: Janine Bauer, Lisa Schreibman
Editors: Jon Orcutt, Lisa Peterson
Executive Director: Janine Bauer

Tri-State Transportation Campaign
240 West 35th Street #801
New York NY 10001
tel. 212-268-7474
fax 212-268-7333
ts...@tstc.org
http://www.tstc.org

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PINELANDS COMMISSION ADMINISTRATOR IS LEAVING HER POST

Date: 020311
From: http://www.phillyburbs.com/

By Paul Leakan, BCT Staff Writer, March 10, 2002,

Pemberton Township - A longtime administrator with the state
Pinelands Commission is leaving her post, the commission announced
during its regular meeting here Friday.

Kathy Swigon, the Pinelands panel's manager of project review and a
16-year employee at the commission, has submitted her resignation,
effective at the end of the month.

Swigon said she is leaving to move to Vermont, where she plans to
build a home.

Shortly after Swigon announced her decision, the commission gave her
a standing ovation.

"She's been one of the main reasons why the commission has been so
successful in its endeavors," commission chairman Jerrold Jacobs said.
"I don't know how we're going to be able to replace her."

As manager of project review, Swigon oversees a 12-person staff that
examines applications for proposed development projects in the 1.1
million-acre national Pinelands preserve. The staff reviews roughly
1,500 applications each year.

A resident of Jackson Township in Ocean County, Swigon began work at
the commission as an environmental engineer.

In other business, commission officials delivered a presentation
detailing efforts to permanently preserve land in the Pinelands.

The information will be discussed further during the commission's
upcoming review of the Comprehensive Management Plan, the rules that
govern growth in the Pinelands.

The commission said the state Department of Environmental Protection
has spent about $31.5 million to acquire and preserve Pinelands
properties.

Various nonprofit land conservation groups such as The Nature
Conservancy hold nearly 10,000 acres in the Pinelands.

The commission said future preservation efforts will likely target
Pinelands properties that are habitats for endangered and threatened
species or those in sensitive headwater regions, in pristine watershed
areas or near large tracts of forest.

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PINELANDS PANEL DISCUSSION - MAR 13

Date: 020311
From: fr...@njpines.state.nj.us

PUBLIC FORUM WILL FOCUS ON PERMANENT LAND PROTECTION

New Lisbon - As part of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission's review of
the
Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP), the first in a series of
three public panel discussions on how to better protect the unique
natural
and cultural resources of the Pinelands will take place on Wednesday,
March
13, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Pinelands Commission's Richard
J.
Sullivan Center in New Lisbon.

"A panel of approximately 15-20 representatives of both governmental
and
non-governmental organizations will focus on permanent land protection
in
the million-acre Pinelands, the challenges ahead, and possible
strategies
for meeting those challenges," explained Annette Barbaccia, Executive
Director of the Pinelands Commission. "There will also be opportunities
for
members of the public to raise questions to the panelists."

The forum is an important part of the year-long CMP review, which began
in
January when Barbaccia submitted the Third Progress Report on Plan
Implementation to the 15-member Pinelands Commission for review. The
report
examines the activities, programs and initiatives of the Pinelands
Commission since the last review was completed five years ago, as well
as
since the Pinelands CMP was first implemented in 1980.

Permanent land protection is one of the priority issues that the
Commission
has identified for the CMP review. Another issue, development of
Regional
Growth Areas, will be the focus of a panel discussion to be scheduled
for
sometime in April. A third panel discussion will address other
significant
issues raised by interested parties.

Public input garnered from the panel discussions as well as written
comments submitted to the Commission will be reviewed along with the
information contained in the Progress Report to determine what issues
will
be addressed by the Commission through recommended CMP amendments or
other
actions. The final step in the CMP Review will be a report issued by the

Commission's Executive Director during early 2003 that summarizes the
work
completed to date, sets future work schedules and provides a critique of
the
CMP and Plan Review process. Permanent Land Protection Panel Discussion

"Public Participation is key to a successful CMP review," said
Barbaccia.
"The Commission understands that our stakeholders, including Pinelands
residents, the environmental community, business interests and other
concerned citizens, will bring diverse viewpoints to this process. The
Pinelands Plan has worked incredibly well for more than two decades, and
as
we identify ways to finetune the CMP, it's important to give the public
a
voice in this review."

At present, representatives of the following organizations are
scheduled to
participate on the Permanent Land Protection panel:

Pinelands Municipal Council;
NJ Forestry Association;
The Nature Conservancy;
American Cranberry Growers Association;
NJ Farm Bureau;
NJ Builders Association;
NJ Audubon Society;
Association of NJ Environmental Commissions;
Ocean County Planning Office;
NJ DEP, Endangered & Nongame Species Program;
NJ DEP, Division of Parks and Forestry;
NJ DEP Green Acres Program;
Banisch Associates (professional planners);
NJ State Agriculture Development Committee; and
Pinelands Development Credit Bank.

The Richard J. Sullivan Center is located at 15 Springfield Road, New
Lisbon, NJ.

* * *

Francis Rapa, Communications Officer
New Jersey Pinelands Commission
phone: 609.894.7300
e-mail: in...@njpines.state.nj.us
http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/

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WORLD SUSTAINABILITY: REALITIES AND STRATEGIES - MAR 13

Date: 11 Mar 2002
From: Trent Schroyer {tsch...@warwick.net}

Ramapo College Student Center Rm 219 6-7:30pm

For schedule and past lectures see http://www.geocities.com/profwork/ws/

3/13 CREATING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RELOCALIZING FOOD SYSTEMS

* Joan Gussow, Author and Professor of Nutrition, Columbia University
* Kathy Lawrence, National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture

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