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Toms River is a township located on the Jersey Shore in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its mainland portion is also a census-designated place of the same name, which serves as the county seat of Ocean County.
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Much of the headwaters of the Toms River is in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. The lower 5 miles (8.0 km) of the river is a broad tidal estuary navigable within the community of Toms River. It empties into the west side of Barnegat Bay, with mid-channel depths of 3.5 to 5 feet (1.1 to 1.5 m). At 124 sq mi (320 km2), the Toms River subwatershed is the ...
Though not always named, the river has appeared on maps in the region since the New Netherland colony. Once the waterway showed up in writing, as early as 1687 and into the late 1700s, it was most often referred to as Goose Creek or Goose Neck Creek. Cartographers bounced between Goose Creek (see: Thomas Jefferys' 1776 Map and Arrowsmith's 1804 Map...
The exact origin of the name Toms River has been lost to history, but there are a number of theories. Two of the three most often referenced theories are written in historical author Edwin Salter's book A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties: Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants...
Reich Farm
In August 1971, the Reich family leased a large portion of their 3-acre farm off Route 9to independent waste hauler Nicholas Fernicola. The lease was to allow Fernicola to temporarily store used 55-gallon drums on the property, located approximately 1,000 ft (300 m) from an intermittent stream draining into the Toms River. In December of that same year, the Reichs discovered nearly 4,500 waste-filled drums from Union Carbide's Bound Brook, New Jersey, plant. The family was able to identify th...
Cancer cluster
Both the Ciba-Geigy and Reich Farms sites resulted in the contamination of an overlapping area groundwater, during an coinciding period of time. In September 1997, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), at the request of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, evaluated childhood cancer incidences in Toms River. The NJDOH reviewed data from the State Cancer Registry (SCR) from 1979 to 1991. According to the Summary Report released by the NJDOH, "The results of the 1995 NJD...
Because the Toms River is a tidal river, with direct feed into Barnegat Bay, it is prone to flooding. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) tracks and reports on significant flood events, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) tracking daily tide levels.
Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. It is a few miles west of the beaches of the Jersey Shore Region, midway between New York and Philadelphia and a short distance from Atlantic City.
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