Grist.org: From paradise to Superfund, afloat on New Jersey’s Passaic River
At 90 miles, the Passaic is the longest, crookedest, and most historic river in New Jersey.
Map credit: grist.org
Map credit: grist.org
"For the first 18 years of my life I lived along the final 17-mile stretch of the Passaic River. That's the dirty, ugly part of the river that passes through the most crowded, industrialized part of the United States.
The Passaic forms the western border of my home town: North Arlington, New Jersey, a tiny borough just a few miles north of the river's mouth in Newark. Our house sat on a steep slope above the river. In the winter, when the oak and maple trees were all bare, I could see the water from our front porch. Sometimes in summer, when a flood tide overwhelmed the river's sluggish current, the Passaic would smell faintly of the sea."
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 5/31/2010 6:00 AM 
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