Save Barnegat Bay – Your help is needed!!   For his entire term in office Governor Jon Corzine has allowed Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Forked River to run with an expired Clean Water Act permit.   Each day that Oyster Creek operates without the required cooling towers, 1.4 billion gallons of Barnegat Bay water passes through its antiquated cooling system. This is 2.3% of the total volume of Barnegat Bay per day and over 800% per year. This is literally straining the life out of the Bay. The negative effects of this obsolete (1969) technology are well documented: (1) Massive destruction of shellfish larvae, fish eggs, and plankton (2) Thermal pollution (3) Killing of endangered sea turtles (4) Large fish kills (5) Biocides released in the Bay (More at www.savebarnegatbay.org) A “closed loop” system of cooling towers would reduce the amount of cooling water required by 95%.   Please write: Governor Jon Corzine                      PO Box 001                      Trenton, NJ 08625   Phone:           609-292-6000 Email:            http://www.nj.gov/governor/govmail.html                             (select "Natural Recourses, then "Clean Water") Governor Driscoll stood by Barnegat Bay by conserving Island Beach. Governor Cahill stood by Barnegat Bay by enacting the Tidal Wetlands Act. Governor Byrne stood by Barnegat Bay by enacting the Pinelands Protection Act. Governor Kean stood by Barnegat Bay by signing the Freshwater Wetlands Act.   Please urge Governor Corzine to enforce the Clean Water Act by requiring cooling towers at Oyster Creek.