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and unloading port, 



(5 ) A recent newspaper article, confirmed by the 

 New Jersey Division of Fish and Game, states 

 that the Atlantic City Electric Company has 

 acquired 4,500 to 5,000 acres of marsh between 

 Stowe Creek and the Cohansey River along the 

 Delaware River near Bridgeton, N.J. The company 

 intends to construct a nuclear energy plant and 

 industrial complex. The New Jersey Green Acres 

 Program and the Division of Fish and Game had 

 both marked this area for preservation. These are 

 some of the finest estuarine marshes of the 

 estuary." 



Connecticut Coast 



Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game "Tidal Marsh Area-- 

 A Summary as of February 1965" says that the earliest record that 

 seems to have been accurately obtained gives a figure of 36.5 

 square miles. This figure was published in 1914 in the First 

 Annual Report of theNew Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association. 

 In the 1954 Wetlands of Connecticut, published by the U. S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service, about 21.7 square miles of this area remained, 

 a reduction of 9,500 acres in 40 years. This reduction averages 

 slightly less than 240 acres per year, slightly less than 1 per 



