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HACKENSACK -- The city will soon get a boat ramp into the Hackensack River for use by emergency responders, City Manager Stephen Lo Iacono said this week. The boat slip will be built as part of the Court Street Bridge replacement project that is under way, Lo Iacono told the City Council during their Tuesday night meeting.
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A three-year effort to reestablish oyster beds in the Hackensack River by a Rutgers University researcher has been derailed by a new ban on such projects by the state. Despite pleas from researchers, Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin last week issued the ban on research-related "gardening" of commercial shellfish in polluted waters to protect the state's $790 million-a-year shellfish industry, which is centered in cleaner southern New Jersey waters.
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The number of worms, crustaceans and other small invertebrates in the Hackensack River has increased threefold since the 1980s, indicating that the flowing water is cleaner than it has been in years, scientists said Thursday. The study mirrors one released in 2005 that indicates a sizable rise in the number and diversity of fish in the river over the same 15-year period.
