Proce:kdings 01^ Fifth Annuai, Mkhting 55 



While in 1912 the Station was doing 77 per cent of the total 

 drainage, in 191 7 it did about 8 per cent. Nevertheless, it must 

 be said that the services of the Station have constantly been at 

 the command of the county units, and that the drainage done by 

 it in no adequate way measures the part played by it in the ac- 

 complishment of this drainage. 



The salt-marsh drainage of 19 17 should next engage attention, 

 and table 4 will seive to show the details. 



In Hudson, Union, Middlesex and Monmouth this drainage 

 was installed as supplementary to the systems already in place^ 

 but in Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May it was placed in hitherto 

 untouched marsh. The aggregate amount of new ditching in the 

 last three counties is 2,386,206 hnear feet, covering about 9,000 

 acres. 



In Ocean Countv the new drainage lies south of Manahawkin 

 and southeast of Tuckerton. In Atlantic it lies along the Egg 

 Harbor River south of that stream. In Cape May it lies about 

 Beeseley's Point and westward and on both sides of the cape 

 northward from the point of the cape. 



Having set forth what has been accomplished, let us con- 

 sider what remains to be done. 



Basing the calculations on the table of the estimated degree 

 of completion of salt-marsh drainage in each county, drainage 

 enough to cover about 13,374 acres, not to mention dikes, tide- 

 gates and pumps, is needed in the counties of Hudson, Bergen,. 

 Essex, Union, Middlesex and Monmouth. To this must be 

 added about 12,000 acres in Ocean, nearly 10,000 in Burlington, 

 about 20,000 in Atlantic, about 45,000 in Cape May, 52,661 in 

 Cumberland and 31,780 in Salem, making a total of 184,815 

 acres. Of this probabl}- about 20 per cent will not need drainage, 

 leaving about 150,000 acres that must be drained. 



At the present rate of 9,000 acres per year (at the rate of 300 

 feet to the acre) 16 years will be required to complete the initial 

 drainage of the salt marsh. At the present rate Ocean County 

 should complete her marsh in about 5 years and Atlantic in about 

 6 years. 



