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and bring us ideas and
suggestions for future activity.
All are welcome!
MEETING SCHEDULE ON THE
1
st
TUESDAY
OF THE MONTH
Meetings held at the Nature
Center at Blue Heron Park
January 5, 2016
February 2, 2016
March 1, 2016
April 5, 2016
May 3, 2016
June 7, 2016
July 5, 2016
August 2, 2016
September 6, 2016
October 4, 2016
November 1, 2016
December 6, 2016
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Winter 2016
NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
a helical pile driver building the foun-
dation of the “Wheel” and related
outlet stores. There also were tons
of excavated soil on the site.
Next up, we saw the old US Gypsum
factory of New Brighton, which is
now “Atlantic Salt”. There was a
large crane, tons of salt and several
sewn tarps covering most of the so-
dium chloride.
There were a few more fishermen
along Snug Harbor shoreline, we
passed the site of the old yacht club.
The Cadell Dry Dock operation had
several notable ships for repair.
There was the Wavertree, a Dela-
ware Bay Ferry and the Ambrose
Lightship. To see them in dry dock,
you get a new appreciation of the
size of the vessel and what goes on
underneath the waterline.
We passed Faber Park in Port Rich-
mond, which is a “catalyst” site of
Partnership for Parks. The park has
improved.
The Bayonne Bridge project was
next, we witnessed welding and steel
connection preparation.
As we headed towards Shooters
Island, there were whitecaps, piling
fields, and we saw the “Singer” sew-
ing machine plant of Elizabeth, NJ.
We passed Bridge Creek, which is
the northernmost tip of SI, traveled
past Howland Hook Marine Terminal,
where the cranes were mechanically
unloading the latest in electronic
goods from China, Hong Kong and
Taiwan.
Then we started down the Arthur Kill,
where a team was busy maintaining
the rail bridge, just north of Goethals
Bridge.
There is extensive caisson work al-
ready in place to build the twinning.
We then saw a Blue Heron on the
west shore of Pralls Island, where
plans to build a trash incinerator
were set forth and defeated by Stat-
en Islanders around 1939. Pralls
Boulevard, a paved area in anticipa-
tion of the incinerator, is still there.
We sped past the Arthur Kill genera-
tion station, where there is an exten-
sive intake of river water and then
discharge of water at an elevated
temperature.
After the new park of Fresh Kills, we
viewed the Witte Shipyards and then
traveled down past the Charleston
beach, near Winant Street.
We saw some sandpipers and water-
fowl, including cormorants at this
location. There were some Buffle-
heads off of Tides at Charleston.
Continuing south, we crossed under
the Outerbridge (that's correct, it's
named for the Engineer whose fami-
ly brought lawn tennis to the U.S.)
and saw the Tottenville Marina at
Ellis Street.
We went to the confluence of the
Raritan River and saw Conference
House Park, a beautiful place man-
aged by our friend, John Killcullen.
A shot of the Kill Van Kull from our canoe trip. Photo by Dave Sanders
Tugboat in the boat graveyard in the Arthur Kill. Photo by Danny Ingellis
