Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION

II. LAND USE WITHIN THE WATERSHED

III. POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS

V. EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRY

VI. ECONOMIC AND TOURISM DATA

VII. PLANNING ACTIVITIES

A. Federal Planning

1. 208 Water Quality Management Planning

2. Clean Water Act:

3. National Estuary Program

B. State Planning

2. Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA)

3. Waterfront Development Act

4. Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act

5. New Jersey Flood Hazard Control Act Rules

6. Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan

7. Soil Erosion and Sediment Control

C. County Planning

1. State Development and Redevelopment Plan

2. Water Quality Management Planning

3. Drinking Water Supply

4. Solid Waste Management

5. New Jersey Clean Vessel Act

6. Ocean County Natural Lands Trust

Farmland Preservation

D. Local Planning

1. Ocean County Development Patterns

a. Coastal Beach Development

b. Bay Corridor Development

c. Inland Development West of the Parkway

1. Watershed Hierarchy

2. Subwatersheds

a. Metedeconk River Subwatershed

b. Kettle Creek Subwatershed (includes Reedy Creek)

c. Silver Bay Subwatershed (includes Goose Creek)

d. Toms River Subwatershed

i. Union Branch

ii. Wrangle Brook/Jake’s Branch

e. Potters Creek Subwatershed

f. Cedar Creek Subwatershed

g. Stouts Creek Subwatershed (includes Wrangle Creek)

h. Forked River Subwatershed

i. Oyster Creek Subwatershed (includes Double Creek)

j. Mill Creek/Westecunk Creek Subwatershed (includes Gunning River, Cedar- Manahawkin Creek, Cedar Run, Dinner Point, Mud Cove)

k. Tuckerton Creek Subwatershed (includes Parker Run)

l. Barrier Islands

m.Watershed Baseline

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