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fecal coliform tests are run on just about every Beach area or recreational waterway on the East Coast. It's not uncommon for relatively clean waterways to have high levels, especially after a big storm where there's a lot of runoff. It's a big reason why the shore towns have a major push for people
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I've seen several studies which indicate that parts of the Toms River, particularly in the Beachwood area, are seriously, seriously polluted. On some of the worse days, Fecal Coliform Bacteria tests have found the river to contain 30 times the amount of the bacteria which is considered safe. Perhaps
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I came to this page hoping to find out something about the pollution of the river by Ciba Geigy but there is nothing here. Could a page be made for this? There is a new book out on the subject as a few days ago:
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http://www.amazon.com/Toms-River-Story-Science-Salvation/dp/055380653X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364172793&sr=1-1&keywords=Toms+River%3A+A+Story+of+Science+and+Salvation
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Clearly, this Knowledge entry has been initiated by people less concerned with educating people about the Toms River than with pushing their anti-CG and cancer-alarmist agenda. --
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There are unsourced sentences in the "Geography" section, like that it is a tidal river and that it has 11 municipalities, which are ID'd in the infobox but not the body.
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A week has passed. The nominator of this article hasn't been active on Knowledge, and nobody else has responded to this, so I will now close this nomination as failed. –
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and the other tributaries really need their own webpages? Is there any news about them that wouldn't be covered by this main article?
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This is a solid article expansion, and its definitely improved from what it was earlier in the year. I don't think it's GA yet.
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is needed after New Jersey in the lead. There are other comma issues throughout the article, like an inappropriate comma in
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A yellow tag has been placed in the "History" section pointing out the inappropriate usage of external links.
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The lead is incredibly short. Some of the history should be included to summarize the article's contents.
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Some items in the infobox, such as the river's width, are not included in the text of the article.
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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is informative, but is not linked from this page, nor is the term explained in the article.
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That's my first pass on this article. I'll put it on hold for a week. –
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The "tributaries" are presented in list format and should have prose.
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There are unsourced paragraphs in "Reich Farm" and "Cancer cluster".
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cleaning up after their dogs and disposing of their trash properly.
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something about this should be added? It's rather significant.
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The "site cleanup table" requires scoped rows and tables (see
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at the time (September 25, 2022). There are suggestions on
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for more), and the date format needs to be fixed per
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