Lawn Care Tips - Be Green with Less Nitrogen

The Bay has a problem: too much nitrogen. According to researchers, an astounding 1,738,000 pounds of nitrogen enter Barnegat Bay every year. Rutgers University researchers believe that 30% of the total nitrogen entering the Bay results DIRECTLY FROM FERTILIZER. Try these low nitrogen tips for your lawn.

THANK YOU, Herring Point Cleanup Volunteers!

On Saturday, March 29, thirty-two volunteers hauled eight cubic yards of trash out of the Herring Point section of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. THANK YOU !! This was SBB's 20th Herring Point Cleanup !!

Barnegat Bay Scholarship Program

Barnegat Bay Scholarship Program Whether you're looking to get or give financial assistance to help further study the Barnegat Bay Watershed, here is the program for you!

Oyster Creek - Your Help is Needed!!!

Oyster Creek's cooling system pulls through, 1.4 billion gallons of Barnegat Bay water per day, straining it of life. THAT IS 2.3% OF THE TOTAL VOLUME OF THE BAY DAILY. Governor Corzine can easily cure the problem by obeying the law and requiring cooling towers. Please write him.

Oyster Creek cooling system harms the Bay 5 Ways

The Oyster Creek nuclear reactor's cooling system sucks through 1.4 billion gallons of Barnegat Bay water each day, greatly harming the bay. This is 2.3% of the bay's volume per day. Cooling towers can easily end this abuse. Please contact Governor Corzine.

TRADERS COVE ORDINANCE SHOULD BE TABLED

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A Victory in Long Beach Township!

Long Beach Township on Friday, Sept 21, tabled a proposed ordinance allowing 100% IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE throughout its commercial district. SBB spearheaded opposition. - Read about it in the Press of Atlantic City.

SBB featured in National Video

YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip) is traveling all 50 states and posting creative videos on the environmental problems Americans face. Barnegat Bay was stop number two in YERT's national adventure!

Nitrogen Project in Philadelphia Inquirer

Read SBB Chairman William deCamp Jr.'s synopsis of Barnegat Bay's Nitrogen Problem in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Background on Nitrogen Pollution

Learn about causes and effects of nitrogen pollution in Barnegat Bay.

Native Plant Sale a Growing Success!

Fifty-eight customers helped keep nitrogen from polluting Barnegat Bay by purchasing 540 native plants.

Petition to Make Anchor Reef a Park with Boat Ramp

The Anchor Reef Marina area (southwest foot of Seaside Bridge, in Toms River) is by far the best opportunity for public access to the water, including a boat ramp in Dover Township. Please help gather signatures on a petition to make it happen. Download Petition [pdf] - Read about it in the Asbury Park Press.

Thank You Herring Point Cleanup Volunteers!

For approximately twenty years SBB has been holding cleanups at Herring Point. On the last Saturday in March, our volunteers did it again.

Transfer of Development Rights

An Overview on implementing the State TDR Act in your community

Save Reedy Creek

A developer wants to put 11 homes in woods that are part of the Reedy Creek area. This property is owned by the Diocese of Trenton and is located near Baywood Blvd & Havens Cove rd. The area is wet and flooding is a concern.

Toms River merits Category One Protection

Save Barnegat Bay has written DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson requesting action on the petition by numerous environmental groups to protect the Toms River.

Bayville - Pine Beach - Beachwood Alert

Help stop massive development of the New Jersey Pulverizing Site (Fisher's Pit) and more traffic on Route 9: Stop the extension of Western Boulevard from Pinewald to Route 9.

Save Lake of the Lilies

Save Lake of the Lilies, a Point Pleasant Beach group separate from Save Barnegat Bay, has formed in order to pursue restoration of what was once one of the shore's premier pristine natural jewels -- legendary for fishing, wildlife, and rare botanical species. - Vist Save Lake of the Lillies on the web.

A Scientist's Warning on the Nitrogen Problem in the Bay

On June 29, Rutgers marine biologist Mike Kennish delivered a talk to over fifty attendees at Save Barnegat Bay's Annual Meeting. Nitrogen and other polutants are having an alarming impact on the bay's ecology.

In Memoriam

Reflections on some Barnegat Bay environmentalists inspirational to the present generation. Elizabeth Morgan, Evan R. Spalt, Bill deCamp, John A. Sly.

Global Warming: How much longer will there be a Barnegat Bay?

As Global Warming acclerates, will our successful efforts toward conserved open space and parks be drowned? Read this Time Magazine Cover Story