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Access to hundreds of acres of a wildlife management area at the southern tip of New Jersey is expected to be closed until about December 2026 while a $37.5 million ecological restoration project gets underway.
Access to hundreds of acres of a wildlife management area at the southern tip of New Jersey is expected to be closed until about December 2026 while a $37.5 million ecological restoration project gets underway.
A public meeting on the planned $37.5 million Pond Creek Restoration Project in the Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area is planned for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, at the Lower Township Municipal Hall, 2600 Bayshore Road in the Villas section.
BASF has agreed to permanently preserve about 1,000 acres to protect groundwater resources at a former Ciba-Geigy chemical plant site it acquired here, and where it continues to clean up a plume of chemical waste in groundwater.