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Re: What is it?
« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2015, 11:51:12 PM »
i know, i know!!!

about a month or so ago the riverkeeper had a river cleanup day.   we had a boat detail to pull out anyone who happened to tip their canoe over.  the big project that day was to get the floating oil booms free of the railroad trestle, they were all hung up on underwater cables and wrapped around  the bridge pilings.  there was no way that they were going to do this with a canoe, so we assisted them in removing them. They have large chains on them to weigh down the lower skirts.   they were probably 500-600 lbs each, and there were 4 of them.  with the help of the people in the canoes we were able to remove 3 of the 4 sections from the water by dragging it with our boat to our boat ramp, and believe me, it was not easy to do with a 25hp motor....  the 4th one is this one.  it was so tangled with underwater obstructions we could not get it freed.   it looks like nature loosened up the 4th one. 
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2015, 03:45:20 PM »
That's pretty amazing.

I blew up the last picture (below) and it definitely looks like a boom.

The river cleanup was August 22. After that, the boom got free somehow and made it to the middle of Kipp's Bend by September 6 (when I took the pictures)....................I wonder where it would be by now.

The Oradell Reservoir?



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What is it?
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2015, 01:00:49 AM »
You can probably guess what most of the red lights are, but what are the 3 large yellowish lights that form a diagonal in the right half?

Hints: I'm looking south and they're not there every night.



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Re: What is it?
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2015, 07:05:45 AM »
There was a news article about this. It's a floating boom, one of four or five dislodged by the Hackensack Fire Dept in conduction with the Riverkeeper Organization.  The source was a bridge in Hackensack further south. This one "got away".

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2015, 08:06:43 AM »
sounds familiar...

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2015, 09:20:17 AM »
It's a floating boom

Ooooooo............you're oh-so-close.

Try again.


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Re: What is it?
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2015, 04:20:31 PM »
OK - this one's not easy.

When I first moved in here, I could see these lights in the sky behind the red Meadowlands radio tower lights on some nights, but not others. When they DID show up, the number of these lights usually varied between 2 and 5 every few minutes and while they stayed more or less on the same diagonal, they would show up at different points along the diagonal.

It took me about two years to figure out that they were airplanes coming in to land at Newark Airport. The top light is the most distant plane and the bottom one is about to land and if I recall correctly, the planes are supposed to be 5 miles apart.

When the wind comes in from another direction, they fly overhead southbound to land.



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Boom! Look what I found!
« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2015, 10:37:19 PM »
The river cleanup was August 22. After that, the boom got free somehow and made it to the middle of Kipp's Bend by September 6 (when I took the pictures)....................I wonder where it would be by now. The Oradell Reservoir?


It's on the Teaneck side of Kipp's Bend.

I was in Foschini Park yesterday and noticed the sliver of a familiar color across the river.

Is this something that the HFD wants to retrieve, Mike?

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Re: Boom! Look what I found!
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2016, 09:07:56 PM »
While I was on the Anderson Bridge south walkway yesterday, I noticed a familiarly-colored floating item (1) snagged behind River Liquors (ever lick a river?).

Apparently, the boom recently moved from just around the bend in Teaneck, where it would have been difficult to retrieve. It looks bunched up in the second picture, but a walk behind the liquor store shows that it's elongated (3) and doesn't appear heavily-snagged (4).

The fifth picture shows that it's fairly close to the shore, so if the HFD or the Riverkeeper wants to retrieve it, this might be a good opportunity before it moves elsewhere again.

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What is it?
« Reply #24 on: May 31, 2016, 04:36:51 PM »
What are those things attached to this unmarked HPD vehicle...........radar?

I've never seen them before.
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2016, 08:58:10 PM »
Probably license plate readers. They are becoming common these days.

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #26 on: June 01, 2016, 09:11:38 AM »
thats what they are

 

anything