Raritan River

An interesting description of breaking up the ice jams in the Raritan river in New Jersey is given by Berliner... 

A. S. Travis, Dyes Made in America, 1915-1980 The Calco Chemical Company, American Cyanamid, and the Raritan River, Edelstein Center/Hexagon Press, Jerusalem, 2004, pp. 47-50. 

The California and New York debates over water pollution were not isolated events. In New Jersey s Raritan River valley, a center of chemical manufacturing, two thousand people joined a Restore the Raritan Society in 1949. The state s Board of Health, which since at least 1909 had been pressing municipalities and factories along the river, placed increased pressure on chemical plants to treat their wastes, and disputes began to reach the courts.36... 

Russell, War and Nature, pp. 18-21 A. S. Travis, Dyes Made in America, 7975 1980 The Calco Chemical Company, American Cyanamid, and the Raritan River (Jerusalem, Hexagon Press, 2004), pp. 37-60 Aftalion, International Chemical Industry, pp. 123-124. Government funding of plant construction Travis, pp. 47, 60 W. Haynes, American Chemical Industry (Van Nostrand, New York, 1945), vol. 3, p. 404. 

Atul Agarwal, Frank K. Brown, and M. Rami Reddy fWyeth-Ayerst Research/AHP, Pearl River, NY 10965 R.W. Johnson, PRI, Raritan, NJ 08869 Metabasis Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121... 

Hudson-Raritan estuary and Long Island Sound 1984-89 total PCBs Upper Hudson River anoxic sediments PCB 1 PCB 4 PCBs 6/19 PCB 8... 

Center), near Aberdeen Indiana Arsenal (Ordnance Works) (Hoosier Ordnance Plant, Charlestown, Ind Joliet Arsenal (Elmwood Ordnance Plant and Kankakee Ordnance Works), Joliet, 111 Lake City Arsenal Independence, Mo Radford Arsenal (Ordnance Works), Radford, Va Raritan Arsenal (Depot), Metuchen, NJ Ravenna Arsenal, Apco, Ohio Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama Red River Arsenal (Depot), Texarkana, Tex Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Denver, Colo and Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia,... 

Rod, S.R., Ayres, R.U., and Small, M. (1989) Reconstruction of historical loadings of heavy metals and chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in the Hudson-Raritan Basin, 1880-1980. Report to the Hudson River Foundation, New York. 

Lohmann R., Nelson E., Eisenreich S. J., and Jones K. C. (2000) Evidence for dynamic air-water exchange of PCDD/ Fs a study in the Raritan Bay/Hudson River estuary. Environ. Sci. Technol. 34, 3086-3093. 

Demuth S, Casillas E, Wolfe DA, et al. 1993. Toxicity of saline and organic solvent extracts of sediments from Boston Harbor. Massachusetts and the Hudson River-Raritan Bay Estuary, New York using the Microtox bioassay. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 25 377-386. 

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