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  1. Artificial Reefs: Insurance for Future Fishing

    Text by Stephen Spagnuola | Published November 1st, 2009 in Environmental • Fishing • Off the Hook

    The Cape May Reef is man-made and is the largest artificial reef, at 4.5 square miles, and the oldest artificial reef site in New Jersey.

  2. Blame it on Mother Nature

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published August 1st, 2009 in Environmental

    Cove beachgoers will have to check the tide charts and make sure their bathing is at low tide until Mother Nature decides to shine down on the little strip of beach at the end of Cape May.

  3. Hot Dogs & Soda for Cape May Point

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published April 1st, 2009 in Cape May Point • Environmental

    Hot dogs, sodas and bicycles are coming to Cape May Point State Park this summer. For the first time in its 38 year history, Cape May Point State Park is advertising for vendors – one for a mobile food concession and another for bicycle rental.

  4. To dephrag or not dephrag?

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published September 1st, 2004 in Cape May Point • Environmental

    That is the question currently being posed by residents of Cape May Point as well as the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the City of Cape May, and the New Jersey Audubon Society (NJAS) as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves forward with a plan to spray the glyphosate-based herbicide Rodeo on 57 acres of [...]

  5. Waiting for Isabel in Cape May…

    Text by CapeMay.com | Published September 1st, 2003 in Cape May • Environmental • In Pictures • Weather

    Pictures from Hurricane Isabel in September 2006.

  6. Desalination: Cape May Leads the Northeastern U.S.

    Text by Eric Avedissian | Published October 1st, 2000 in Environmental

    “Water, water, everywhere —nor any drop to drink…”*
    Cape May’s Desalination Plant’s no Albatross!
    *Apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his legendary poem “Ryme of the Ancient Mariner”
    There can be no debate, water is the sustenance of life. As the world’s population and demands increase, natural resources deplete. Today’s worldwide water crisis has forced mankind to push [...]