Passaic River

No sign of heat ray.

Enemy now turns east, crossing Passaic River into the Jersey Marshes.

Another straddles the Pulaski Skyway.

Evident objective is New York City.

Well, obviously we're getting a nice break from the rain, but not the flooding.

This is essentially now a part of the Passaic River in this neighborhood.

I'll

take it.

Weasel Brook, that's amazing.

in the Passaic River.

Not really, I mean, they say it's not a satanic supernatural place.

I don't believe them.

The question is...

It's actually, as we just discussed before the break, when you're talking about a risk of a chemical in the environment, and go back to that Passaic River case where dioxins, US EPA had found that if you ate one crab out of Newark Bay, the dioxin levels were so high that it doubled your cancer risk, lifetime risk.

That's how much dioxin was in Newark Bay because of that Agent Orange site.

When you're looking at risk, you're trying to come up with, you know, basically standards to set your drinking water and you're trying to clean up to a level that protects the public.

Yes.

I mean, both the Hackensack River and the Passaic River, which are up closer to New York City, are EPA Superfund sites below a certain area.

There are a lot of factories there.

that area traditionally so they're actively going under restoration and just our coalition is trying to highlight the areas like the areas that are not being looked at in terms of environmental factors that may harm river wildlife so that's one example of a grant we're pursuing and we're looking into some like architectural grants and things like that find some participating businesses and like do like do some actual retrofit projects and before and after and try and gauge how it can improve the area

Director Doug O'Malley says it's striking that they found PFAS in waterways in every New Jersey county.

In our rivers, in the Passaic and the Hackensack and the lower Delaware.

It also was in testings from the Delaware Water Gap and even deep in the Pine.

The group is urging the state to ban industrial facilities from dumping PFAS in our rivers and to mandate that wastewater treatment plants filter out PFAS before they're discharged into New Jersey's waterways.

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Passaic River that we have to get rid of them somehow.

Oh.

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