Clean Ocean Advocate, September 2005

The monthly Clean Ocean Advocate newsletter informs citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, important meeting dates, proposed legislation, special events, and other notes of interest. Highlights of this issue include: Help 'Close the Loop' at Oyster Creek; Artificial Reef Monitoring Program; NY/NJ Harbor Deepening Project; Two Phases of Improving Wreck Pond Under Review; Shark River Regional Dredged Material Management Plan; and Offshore Wind Park Proposal off Jones Beach, NY.Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of over 150 business, community, conservation, environmental, fishing, boating, diving, student, surfing, women's, and service groups. These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight (the area of water from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk Point, New York, and out to the edge of the outer continental shelf). The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution