EPA Targeted Watersheds
Restoring and Protecting Public Water Supplies and Watershed Resources
of the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey
An EPA Targeted Watersheds Grant Project
Agreement No. WS982909-03-0
USEPA provided a $1 million grant from its Targeted Watershed Initiative
in November 2003, with the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
serving as project lead in partnership with the NJ Water Supply Authority,
and the NJ Department of Environmental Protection.
The South Branch Watershed Association was also a partner, working with NJWSA.
The partners were provided $1.1 million in matching resources,
for a total $2.1 million effort.
This project was an exciting effort to improve surface water quality
using a three-prong effort of restoration, protection, and pollution prevention
within three areas:
- a semi-rural area (the South Branch Raritan)
that supports the state’s first and third largest reservoirs;
- the rapidly developing suburban Route 1 corridor (Millstone River)
between Philadelphia and New York; and
- a core urban/industrial area
(Raritan/Somerville/Manville area along the mainstem Raritan River)
that is just upstream of the Basin’s largest water supply intake.
NOTE: Page under construction.
Please check back later for updated information on this project.
