Clean Ocean Advocate, August 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. Articles in this issue include: Offshore Wind Proposal - Proposal for 40 Windmills Up for Public Comment; Oyster Creek - Discharge permit will not protect marine life; Contaminated Sediments - NY/NJ Harbor Deepening Project, Updated Report and Plan for Harbor Dredging to Be Issued; Artificial Reefs - PCBs on Ships used for Artificial Reefs; Coastal Water Quality - Plans to Improve Wreck Pond Water Quality, Update on Shark River Regional Dredge Management Plan; C.O.A.S.T. 2005; Nonpoint Source Pollution - COA Beach Sweeps Goes to Hawaii; Flotsam and Jetsam - Coordinated Environmental Action Comes to Long Beach Island; Events; Participating Organization; and Coastal Creature Feature - Jingle Shell.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.August 200