Data report 303 (d) reconnaissance monitoring watershed management area 19

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is committed to implementing a comprehensive, statewide watershed management strategy. Part of that strategy is to determine the assimilative capacity of the state's waterways and to assess the extent of their impairment. In this regard, the Bureau of Freshwater and Biological Monitoring (BFWBM) has been requested to provide reconnaissance sampling and monitoring on some of the waterways currently listed on the state's 303(d) "Impaired Waters" list The purpose of such sampling is to assess the validity of that impairment designation and to gather information for the eventual design of a sampling program for the development of a Total Maximum Daily Load Model