The New Jersey Geological Survey (NJGS) provides geoscience information to government agencies, consultants, industry, environmental groups and the public. The work of the Survey covers large regional issues of environmental concern and economic development, as well as smaller, educational studies. This issue includes a Message from the State Geologist, A Plan to Plunder New Jersey's Water, The New York-New Jersey Line War, Old Dutch Mine, Derivation of Equation Governing the Area of Solar Radiation on the Earth Surface as a Function of Time and Slope, Dinosaur Day at the Newark Museum, and a list of new publications.Summer 2009Purpose: To share information with the public about the activities of the NJ Geological Survey and about geology