Raritan River Basin: A Sustainable Perspective for New Jersey

New Jersey's Raritan River Basin represents the smallest of NWNL's 6 case-study watersheds in Africa and North America.  Despite its bucolic upstream habitats, the Raritan's heavily-industrialized downstream reaches testify to the need for SuperFund sites and other approaches addressing pollution as well as the sustainable resource management of urban watersheds.

Associated Pictures http://www.associatedpictures.com/ created this piece to help NWNL raise awareness of the many values of the Raritan River as it flows through the nation's most densely-populated state.  The film highlights centuries of degradation to the Raritan watershed now being addressed by the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative http://www.blueraritan.org/ . NWNL is proud to be a member of this collaborative of more than 70 organizations, businesses, academic groups and environmental organizations working to restore and protect the Raritan River Basin and all of its tributaries.

NWNL thanks Associated Pictures for this video.  In the spirit of understanding the values of our watersheds, let us all commit to visiting, conserving, protecting, or at least appreciating our freshwater resources!

More info at No Water No Life:  http://nowater-nolife.org/
Map of the Raritan River Basin: http://nowater-nolife.org/watersheds/raritan/map-Raritan-basin.html

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[toonerhead]

The dams are coming down and I can't wait !!

[ShereKhan77]

@ShereKhan77 talk to native american tribes about implement or eminent domien.i fish this river 345 days a year.im hope you guys are right.i fear your not.the shad could have and should have ran the river anyway with the dams still in place.its some other element stopping them.a smell of it.thats why they dont go up the stagnant millstone anymore like they used to.its a mud hole.im just concerned about my resources.pleas measure more than twice.that river is still good but not great and fading.

[ShereKhan77]

@ShereKhan77 i think your personally trying to drop the level of the river to build in the valley.low income housing and office space.numbers are numbers.yeah i know.i heard about the ladder and all that.hows hooking soft shell turtles on sommerville sound fishing for catfish? how about one last week in brunswick?how about a trapped logger head in cyanamid?(wich was scary) lol i think your tampering with things with motive.i hope im wrong.

[ShereKhan77]

for starters stop bulding places like river park and those other condos by queens bridge.i think " implement" was a bad term used.stop building and clean it or does some cooperation speak into the ears of a king like kaa from jungle book? the removal of the dams is an unruly and unorthadox act.the shad wont run becuase they smell overdevelopment runoff not the dams...im hooking walleye in raritan boro and i watch fish jump the dams all day.cynamid?yes take it.leave nevius and robert street alone

[ShereKhan77]

2:09 nevius street bridge.....

[Theamericanstates]

Thank you for this beautiful and interesting video. Its in some of my playlists.

[sabelmouse]

lovely video. i wish you success.