Final Reports and White Papers

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Final reports and white papers published by the Division of Science and Research. Short, 3-5 page research project summaries for many of these reports can be found in the Research Project Summary collection: https://dspace.njstatelib.org/handle/10929/68526

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    Assessing impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on New Jersey forests 2002-2003 : final report year 1
    (Trenton, N.J. : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Science, Research and Technology, 2003-11) Dighton, John; Tuininga, Amy; Jonsson, Lena; Gray, Dennis; Belton, Thomas
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    Assessing Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on New Jersey Forests 2002-2003: Final Report Year 1
    (Trenton, N.J. : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Science, Research and Technology, 2003-11) Dighton, John; Tuininga, Amy; Jonsson, Lena; Gray, Dennis; Belton, Thomas
    The project scope was conceptualized at an inter-programmatic meeting within the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection including representation by the Divisions of Science Research and Technology, Forestry, Air, Watershed Management and Endangered Species. A consensus was reached that a suite of bioindicators would prove critical in satisfying State management goals to enhance air and water quality; to restore ecosystems, sustain land and natural resource communities; as well as to preserve biodiversity in the state. The immediate goal was to establish unique baseline terrestrial communities of known structure in the Pinelands Ecoregion of New Jersey, then to evaluate the influence of potential environment stressors. Of particular interest were air deposited nitrogen and its measurable biological effects on forest ecosystems for long term trends-assessment. Methods are needed to benchmark nitrogen status in the Pinelands, and other air sheds in New Jersey, to track deposition trends and effects over time; that is, to develop a means to measure Nitrogen dry deposition effects (i.e., using bioindicators such as mycorrhizal fungi). Changes in macro-fungal species composition and abundance have been used in other parts of the world as biological indicators for terrestrial wooded ecosystems.
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    Pollution Minimization Plans and PCB Source Trackdown in Camden City
    (Trenton, N.J. : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Science, Research and Technology, 2008-08) Belton, Thomas; Lippincott, R. Lee; Stevenson, Edward; Botts, John
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    Pollution minimization plans and PCB source trackdown in Camden City
    (Trenton, N.J. : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Science, Research and Technology, 2008-08) Belton, Thomas; Lippincott, Lee; Stevenson, Edward; Bolts, John
    A PCB source trackdown study was performed in Camden, New Jersey using the sewer collection system of a municipal utility authority (MUA). Sampling and analytical techniques were developed to identify PCB sources using innovative desktop, field and analytical methods including high resolution gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy; the quantitation of 124 separate PCB congeners for source signatures; the use of passive in-situ continuous extraction samplers (PISCES); and the use of electronic data interfaced with a GIS system to geographically isolate potential sources. In addition, PCB immunoassay analyses (ELISA) of street soils were carried out near storm drains in front of suspected facilities. These source identification methods were developed to support Pollution Minimization Plans (PMP), which are permit requirements for discharger facilities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware as part of the Delaware Estuary PCB-TMDL. The PMP rules require dischargers to actively seek out, and reduce, PCBs on their facilities footprint which might get into the MUA collection system. This can be problematic, however, for a county-wide MUA with hundreds of miles of pipes and numerous undefined point and non-point sources (i.e., Camden City is a combined sewer outfall (CSO) area where storm run-off can collect PCBs and other contaminants then mix with sewerage in pipes prior to treatment).