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Too bad it's not our Hackensack, but you can make believe it refers to glacial Lake Hackensack.



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[just watching]

There was a plan seriously discussed from the early 1900's into the early 1980's, to dam the Hackensack River at various spots in Downtown Hackensack (usually at The Susquehanna Rail crossing), and create a lake that stretched up to the lower dam in Oradell.

The problem is that a project so big and complicated takes so long that it spans multiple political administrations, and usually it does not survive the changes in political agenda from one administration to the next.  The same has happened for the more recent Hackensack River Walkway, only small parts of which have been built.  And major segments repeatedly canceled.

[Homer Jones]

Maybe ol' Homer can shed some light on that project. The Lake Hackensack proposal was always a plan projected by the Freeholders who originally wanted it to start near the Court Street Bridge which was right in their back yard. One fine day somebody realized that in the 1960's The Record was still getting paper deliveries by barge and that they were the final industrial user for any kind of river shipping. Thus it was decided that the project would start north of the NYS&W railroad trestle.
Then what happened to the project you may ask. The project called for the construction of a tidal barrier across the River just north of the tracks which would have controlled the tides and caused a lake effect on the River.
 The key here is that the Hackensack River is tidal up to New Milford. At that time Public Service had an electrical generating plant along the River in Ridgefield Park and was proposing a new and expanded facility there. The generation of electricity used water which is one of the reasons that generation plants were constructed along waterways. The byproduct of the electrical generation was heated water which was dumped into the Hackensack River. Due to the tidal flow of the River, the wastewater was cooled during the natural tidal cycle thus supposedly having no adverse effect on marine and natural wildlife in the Meadowlands.
As Homer remembers, the construction of the tidal barrier at the proposed location would have altered the tidal flow of the River and would have affected the natural cooling of the water causing a rise in the temperature of the River in the Meadowlands. In the early 1970's environmental issues in the Meadowlands had become a major concern to the State and that was the primary reason that the Lake Hackensack project was killed.
Of course nobody challenged Public Service and why the heated water had to be dumped into the River.

[just watching]

I wonder if PSE&G is still dumping heated water into the river.  I thought I read something about that being discontinued about 10 years ago.