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The United States Government owns or has leased, I believe, all 

 the land (about 1,800 acres), along the Delaware from Westville, 

 to Red Bank. The western part of this strip lies directly opposite 

 League Island. Just west of Westville there are two or three small 

 cattail potholes which could be drained by short ditdhes into the 

 river. The greater part of this property, known as the Campbell 

 Farm, lies between the lighthouse and Red Bank. On the Geologi- 

 cal Survey Map there are indicated 95 acres of marsh on the eastern 

 end of the Campbell Farm. This marsh has been filled and no 

 longer exists. West of this filled-in marsh there are about 500 

 acres of drained land. The system of ditches discharges into a 

 large (15 or 20-ft.), main drainage canal. The above ditches 

 would need to be carefully inspected for larvae, a;s the water in 

 some is apparently stagnant. Besides cleaning these ditches and 

 perhaps altering the grades of some, there are a number of cat- 

 tail swamps on this farm still in need of drainage. It would be 

 difficult to say, without making surveys, how much ditching is 

 needed here to eliminate breeding. But probably not over 160 

 acres are still in need of drainage. 



There is a marshy stream with some overhanging privies on the 

 eastern side of Red Bank, in part of which breeding undoubtedly 

 occurs. There is also a small swamp behind the boat-houses on 

 the beach toward the western end of Red Bank. 



About one-half mile south of the Battle Monument at Red Bank 

 there is an open field marsh of perhaps 20 acres. This would have 

 to be drained into the low-lying land behind the dikes along Wood- 

 bury Creek. 



Woodbury Creek joins the Delaware opposite Hog Island. The 

 land behind the dikes on either side of this creek, and extending back 

 miles from the river, is badly in need of an adequate drainage 

 systemi. There must be 500 acres of this low-lying land, much of 

 it near the mouth of the creek being marsh. Everywhere there 

 are old drainage ditches, but for many of these no outlet could be 

 found, and in most, the water appeared stagnant. Many of the 

 ditches in the marshier area near the river were more or less 

 choked with algae. Without taking levels it would be impossible to 

 say whether this area could be drained without pumping. Some 

 of it seems to be below low tide. 



Further up the creek some 488 acres of marsh are indicated on 



