Category Archives: Family & kids

DEP Report finds widespread drinking water contamination

Posted on August 28, 2008 by

Residents of over 50,000 NJ homes drinking polluted water – 12.5% of wells fail to meet standards [Update: Here is today’s APP story – DEP is merely responding – this is bad news they would have preferred to have stayed … Continue reading →

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Drink at your own risk

Posted on August 27, 2008 by

DEP Report: Residents of over 50,000 NJ homes drinking polluted water Â According to a DEP report required by the Private Well Testing Act, residents of over 50,000 NJ homes are unknowingly drinking unsafe well water, yet DEP and local … Continue reading →

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Baldpate Mountain “Improvements” – Update

Posted on August 23, 2008 by

Is additional car dependent public access worth the destruction? Bill Wolfe Back in January, while hiking on Baldpate Mountain (Hopewell Township, Mercer County) I was shocked to come across a new access road and parking lot blasted through forest – … Continue reading →

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I need a mycologist

Posted on August 18, 2008 by

anyone know what these strange fungi are? Bill Wolfe Just returned from a brief but wonderful camping/hiking jaunt with my son to Allegheny National Forest. We were surprised by how few visitors we came across at this fairly wild but … Continue reading →

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On the Beach

Posted on August 10, 2008 by

Now I’m livin’ out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach. ~~~~ Neil Young Bill Wolfe Bill Wolfe Bill Wolfe Bill Wolfe Bill Wolfe Bill Wolfe Bill Wolfe There you stood on the edge of … Continue reading →

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