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New Jersey Current Events

NOAA is working on a series of relief models that will help assess the tsunami and storm-driven flood threats for the eastern coast of the United States. Just finished are models for Long Island, New York; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Daytona Beach. Florida.

The title line of this story is about funding being pulled on a recreational project, however, the geological story is about arsenic contaminated ground water in residential water supply wells.

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Storms on the New Jersey coast can cause tidal flooding and storm surge that cause significant damage. USGS, the New Jersey Department of Transportation and NOAA designed and installed a tide telemetry system to remotely monitor the tide levels using a statewide network of tide gages, weather stations, and stream gages that collect data in real time.