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Passaic River

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The Passaic River is a mature surface river, approximately 80 mi (129 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States. [1]

143 relations: Acquackanonk people, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Agent Orange, Belleville, New Jersey, Bergen County, New Jersey, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, Biodiesel, Black Brook (Passaic River tributary), Canoe Brook, Canyon, Channel (geography), Chatham, New Jersey, Chris Christie, Clean Water Act, Clifton, New Jersey, Cory's Brook, County (United States), Dead River (New Jersey), Deep Voll Brook, Delaware River, Diamond Brook, Diamond Shamrock, Don Bosco Preparatory High School, Drainage basin, Dundee Canal, East Newark, New Jersey, Elmwood Park, New Jersey, Environmental law, Essex County, New Jersey, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First River, Flood, Floodplain, Foulerton's Brook, Fountains of Wayne, Garfield, New Jersey, Gateway Region, Goffle Brook, Great Brook (New Jersey), Great Falls (Passaic River), Great Piece Meadows, Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Hackensack people, Hackensack River, Harrison, New Jersey, Hatfield Swamp, Hawthorne, New Jersey, Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, ..., Hudson County, New Jersey, Hydropower, Ice age, Industrialisation, Kearny Riverbank Park, Kearny, New Jersey, Lake Passaic, Lawsuit, Lenape, Lincoln Park, New Jersey, List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey, List of crossings of the Lower Passaic River, List of crossings of the Upper Passaic River, List of rivers of New Jersey, Little Diamond Brook, Little Falls, New Jersey, Livingston, New Jersey, Loantaka Brook, Lord Stirling Park, Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Mahwah River, McDonalds Brook, Mendham Borough, New Jersey, Millington, New Jersey, Molly Ann Brook, Morris County, New Jersey, Morristown National Historical Park, Navigability, New Jersey, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, New Jersey Superior Court, New Providence, New Jersey, New York Harbor, Newark Bay, Newark, New Jersey, North Arlington, New Jersey, North Jersey, Nutley, New Jersey, Occidental Petroleum, Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic Formation, Passaic River Flood Tunnel, Passaic, New Jersey, Paterson (poem), Paterson, New Jersey, Peckman River, Pequannock River, Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, Pompton River, Primrose Brook, Proglacial lake, Ramapo River, River, Riverbank Park, Rockaway River, Rutherford, New Jersey, Saddle River (Passaic River tributary), Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, Salt Brook, Second River (New Jersey), Settlement (litigation), Skylands Region, Slippery Rock Brook, Slough Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey, Spring Garden Brook, St. Peter's Preparatory School, Stevenson Brook, Summit, New Jersey, Swamp, The Ironbound, Third River (New Jersey), Trestle bridge, Tributary, Union County, New Jersey, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Urbanized, Valley, Vietnam War, Wallington, New Jersey, Wanaque River, Watchung Mountains, Water pollution, Water quality, Wayne, New Jersey, Weasel Brook, Weir, Weird NJ, Wheeler Antabanez, Whippany River, William Carlos Williams, YPF. Expand index (93 more) »

Acquackanonk people

The Acquackanonk were a Lenape group whose territory was on the Passaic RiverIndian Tribes of Hudson's River; Ruttenber, E.M.; Hope Farm Press, 3rd ed, 2001, in northern New Jersey.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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Agent Orange

Agent Orange is an herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides.

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Belleville, New Jersey

Belleville (French: "Belle ville" meaning "Beautiful city / town") is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Bergen County, New Jersey

Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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Biodiesel

Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters.

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Black Brook (Passaic River tributary)

Black Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River that flows through the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris County, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Canoe Brook

Canoe Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Canyon

A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.

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Channel (geography)

In physical geography, a channel is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path of relatively shallow and narrow body of fluid, most commonly the confine of a river, river delta or strait.

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Chatham, New Jersey

"The Chathams" is a term used in reference to shared services for two neighboring municipalities in Morris County, New Jersey, United States – Chatham Borough and Chatham Township.

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Chris Christie

Christopher James Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician, former federal prosecutor, and political commentator who served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.

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Clean Water Act

The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.

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Clifton, New Jersey

Clifton is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Cory's Brook

Cory's Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River that has its source in Warren County, New Jersey and forms the boundary of Union County, New Jersey.

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County (United States)

In the United States, an administrative or political subdivision of a state is a county, which is a region having specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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Dead River (New Jersey)

The Dead River is a tributary of the Passaic River that has its source in Somerset County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Deep Voll Brook

Deep Voll Brook, also known as Deep Brook (USGS captioned name), is a tributary of Goffle Brook and part of the Passaic River watershed.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

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Diamond Brook

Diamond Brook, also known as Bass Brook, is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Bergen County in New Jersey, United States.

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Diamond Shamrock

Diamond Shamrock Corp. or Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing was an oil refinery and gas station company in the United States, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

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Don Bosco Preparatory High School

Don Bosco Preparatory High School (Don Bosco Prep) is a private, all-boys Roman Catholic high school from ninth through twelfth grades.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Dundee Canal

The Dundee Canal was an industrial canal in Clifton and Passaic in Passaic County, New Jersey.

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East Newark, New Jersey

East Newark is a borough in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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Elmwood Park, New Jersey

Elmwood Park is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Environmental law

Environmental law, also known as environmental and natural resources law, is a collective term describing the network of treaties, statutes, regulations, common and customary laws addressing the effects of human activity on the natural environment.

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Essex County, New Jersey

Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Fair Lawn is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb located from New York City. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 32,457, reflecting an increase of 820 (+2.6%) from the 31,637 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,089 (+3.6%) from the 30,548 counted in the 1990 Census. Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, as "Fairlawn," from portions of Saddle River Township.Snyder, John P., Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 77. Accessed May 18, 2012. The name was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker's estate home, that was built in 1865 and later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as "Fair Lawn" Borough. Radburn, one of the first planned communities in the United States, is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn and was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age." Fair Lawn is home to a large number of commuters to New York City, to which it is connected by train from two railroad stations on NJ Transit's Bergen County Line, the Radburn and Broadway stations. Fair Lawn's motto, coined by Jake Janso, is "A great place to visit and a better place to live."Leggate, Jim., Fair Lawn - Saddle Brook Patch, November 19, 2013. Accessed November 1, 2014. "Fair Lawn's motto is that it's 'a great place to visit and a better place to live.'" Fair Lawn has been rated as one of the top 10 best places to live in New Jersey. According to Nerdwallet, Fair Lawn witnessed a 5.3% increase in its working-age population between 2009 and 2011.

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Fairfield Township, Essex County, New Jersey

Fairfield is a township in far northwestern Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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First River

The First River, in the state of New Jersey in the United States, is a subterranean river and the first main tributary of the Passaic River encountered while travelling upstream from its mouth at Newark Bay.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Foulerton's Brook

Foulerton's Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Roseland, New Jersey in the United States.

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Fountains of Wayne

Fountains of Wayne was an American rock band that formed in New York City in 1995.

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Garfield, New Jersey

Garfield is a city in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Gateway Region

The Gateway Region is located in Northeastern New Jersey, United States.

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Goffle Brook

Goffle Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Passaic County and Bergen County in New Jersey and drains the eastern side of the First Watchung Mountain.

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Great Brook (New Jersey)

Great Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Great Falls (Passaic River)

The Great Falls of the Passaic River is a prominent waterfall, high, on the Passaic River in the city of Paterson in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Great Piece Meadows

Great Piece Meadows is a fresh water swamp located in the towns of Lincoln Park, Montville, and Fairfield in New Jersey.

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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey.

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Hackensack people

Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, a Native American tribe.

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Hackensack River

The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor.

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Harrison, New Jersey

Harrison is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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Hatfield Swamp

Hatfield Swamp is a fresh water wetland area in the US state of New Jersey, forming what might be considered the "second bank" of the Passaic River between Morris and Essex counties.

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Hawthorne, New Jersey

Hawthorne is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Ho-Ho-Kus Brook

Ho-Ho-Kus Brook is a tributary of the Saddle River in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Hudson County, New Jersey

Hudson County, a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609.

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Hydropower

Hydropower or water power (from ύδωρ, "water") is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.

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Kearny Riverbank Park

Kearny Riverbank Park is a municipal linear park along the Passaic River in Kearny, New Jersey.

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Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Newark.

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Lake Passaic

Lake Passaic was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed in northern New Jersey in the United States at the end of the last ice age approximately 19,000-14,000 years ago.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit (or suit in law) is "a vernacular term for a suit, action, or cause instituted or depending between two private persons in the courts of law." A lawsuit is any proceeding by a party or parties against another in a court of law.

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Lenape

The Lenape, also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in Canada and the United States.

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Lincoln Park, New Jersey

Lincoln Park is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey

This is a list of vehicular and rail bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey.

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List of crossings of the Lower Passaic River

The Lower Passaic River in New Jersey is the section of the Passaic River below the Great Falls which flows over the Dundee Dam to the river mouth at Newark Bay in the northeastern part of the state.

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List of crossings of the Upper Passaic River

The Upper Passaic River in New Jersey is the section of the Passaic River above the Dundee Dam, including the Great Falls.

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List of rivers of New Jersey

This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of New Jersey. List of New Jersey rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers.

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Little Diamond Brook

Little Diamond Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Bergen County in New Jersey.

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Little Falls, New Jersey

Little Falls is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Livingston, New Jersey

Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Loantaka Brook

Loantaka Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in New Jersey in the United States.

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Lord Stirling Park

Lord Stirling Park is a 925/950 acre park operated by the Somerset County Park Commission and located in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and separated from the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge by the Passaic River.

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Lyndhurst, New Jersey

Lyndhurst is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Mahwah River

The Mahwah River is a tributary of the Ramapo River in Rockland County, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States.

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McDonalds Brook

McDonald's Brook is tributary of the Passaic River.

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Mendham Borough, New Jersey

Mendham Borough is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Millington, New Jersey

Millington is an unincorporated community located within Long Hill Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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Molly Ann Brook

Molly Ann Brook (sometimes Molly Ann’s Brook) is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south between the northern ranges of First Watchung Mountain and Second Watchung Mountain in Passaic County and Bergen County, New Jersey.

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Morris County, New Jersey

Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City.

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Morristown National Historical Park

Morristown National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, consisting of four sites important during the American Revolutionary War: Jockey Hollow, the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense and the New Jersey Brigade Encampment site.

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Navigability

A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and slow enough for a vessel to pass or walk.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is a government agency in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is responsible for managing the state's natural resources and addressing issues related to pollution.

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New Jersey Superior Court

The Superior Court is the state court in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with statewide trial and appellate jurisdiction.

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New Providence, New Jersey

New Providence is a borough on the northwestern edge of Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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New York Harbor

New York Harbor, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean at the East Coast of the United States.

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Newark Bay

Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.

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North Arlington, New Jersey

North Arlington is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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North Jersey

North Jersey comprises the northern portions of the U.S. state of New Jersey between the upper Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Nutley, New Jersey

Nutley is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol) is an American multinational petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Houston, Texas with operations in the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America.

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Passaic County, New Jersey

Passaic County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is part of the New York metropolitan area.

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Passaic Formation

The Passaic Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

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Passaic River Flood Tunnel

The Passaic River Flood Tunnel is a proposal for a flood relief tunnel from the central portion of the Passaic River basin in Passaic County, New Jersey in an area where a number of large tributary rivers join the Passaic River and severe flooding occasionally occurs.

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Passaic, New Jersey

Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Paterson (poem)

Paterson is an epic poem by American poet William Carlos Williams published, in five volumes, from 1946 to 1958.

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Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Peckman River

The Peckman River is a tributary of the Passaic River in Essex and Passaic Counties, New Jersey in the United States.

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Pequannock River

The Pequannock River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, located in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins

Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), or simply dioxins, are a group of polyhalogenated organic compounds that are significant environmental pollutants.

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Pompton River

The Pompton River is a tributary of the Passaic River, approximately 8 mi (13 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Primrose Brook

Primrose Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in the Jockey Hollow section of the Morristown National Historical Park of northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Proglacial lake

In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice.

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Ramapo River

The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in southern New York and northern New Jersey in the United States.

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River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.

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Riverbank Park

Riverbank Park is a park in the Ironbound section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Rockaway River

The Rockaway River is a tributary of the Passaic River, approximately 35 mi (56 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Rutherford, New Jersey

Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Saddle River (Passaic River tributary)

The Saddle River flows south through much of Bergen County, New Jersey.

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Saint Benedict's Preparatory School

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School is a college preparatory school in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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Salt Brook

Salt Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Union County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Second River (New Jersey)

The Second River, or Watsessing River, in the state of New Jersey in the United States, is the second main tributary of the Passaic River encountered while travelling upstream from its mouth at Newark Bay.

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Settlement (litigation)

In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins.

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Skylands Region

The Skylands Region (or simply known as Skylands) is a region and marketing area of the State of New Jersey located in the Northern and Central part of the state.

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Slippery Rock Brook

Slippery Rock Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Passaic County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Slough Brook

Slough Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Essex County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Somerset County, New Jersey

Somerset County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Spring Garden Brook

Spring Garden Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Morris County, New Jersey in the United States.

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St. Peter's Preparatory School

Saint Peter's Preparatory School (called "St. Peter's Prep") is a private, all-male, Jesuit, college-preparatory school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

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Stevenson Brook

Stevenson Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Hawthorne, Passaic County, New Jersey in the United States.

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Summit, New Jersey

Summit is an affluent city in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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The Ironbound

The Ironbound is a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Third River (New Jersey)

The Third River, also known as the Yantecaw River (possibly from Munsee yu wandakw, "here this way".), is the third (upstream) main tributary of the Passaic River in Passaic and Essex Counties, New Jersey in the United States.

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Trestle bridge

A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used both as stools and to support tables at banquets.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Union County, New Jersey

Union County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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Urbanized

Urbanized is a documentary film directed by Gary Hustwit and released on 26 October 2011.

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Valley

A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Wallington, New Jersey

Wallington is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Wanaque River

The Wanaque River (Native American for "place of the sassafras") is a tributary of the Pequannock River in Passaic County in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Watchung Mountains

The Watchung Mountains (once called the Blue Hills) are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Water pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.

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Water quality

Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.

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Wayne, New Jersey

Wayne is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States located less than from Midtown Manhattan, and is home to William Paterson University.

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Weasel Brook

Weasel Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Weir

A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the horizontal width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.

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Weird NJ

Weird NJ (or WNJ) is a semi-annual magazine that chronicles local legends, hauntings, ghost stories, folklore, unusual places or events, and anything considered "weird" in New Jersey.

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Wheeler Antabanez

Wheeler Antabanez is the alter-ego and pen name for Montclair, New Jersey-based writer Matt Kent (born January 31, 1977).

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Whippany River

The Whippany River is a tributary of the Rockaway River, approximately 20 mi (30 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.

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YPF

YPF (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales; English: "Fiscal Oilfields") is a vertically integrated Argentine energy company, engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, and the transportation, refining, and marketing of gas and petroleum products.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaic_River

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