http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103300754185&ca=6c1656b7-b1ce-40b1-9d67-a5107c831056
I was surprised to see
any kind of watercraft on the Hackensack River yesterday afternoon at low tide (first pic), but this was a type I hadn't seen before, pulling up to Foschini Park, dropping someone off (2) and heading back downriver (3, 4).
The only word I could make out on the craft was "SURVEY". It's possible that "NOAA" preceded it, but I can't be sure. Anyway, I'm guessing that this had to do with the 6-15-16 story in the above link that begins thusly:
"The federal government will be taking sediment samples from the Hackensack River over the next six weeks to measure more than a century’s worth of industrial pollution and determine whether the contamination is extensive enough to put the river on the federal Superfund list, a move that could trigger a comprehensive cleanup."The dropped-off man appeared to be carrying something that could be a testing kit, so maybe he was taking samples along the park's shore perimeter.
I didn't see him or the craft after that.
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LICKit!