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Background<br />
<strong>Harbor</strong> Background<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong>/<strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong> is located between the states of <strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong> and <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>York</strong> and opens up into the Atlantic Ocean. The harbor consists of the Hudson River,<br />
East River, Hackensack River, Passaic River, <strong>New</strong>ark Bay, Jamaica Bay, Arthur Kill, the<br />
Figure 1: Map of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> and <strong>New</strong> <strong>Jersey</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong> (<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> District of the Army<br />
Corps of Engineers. http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/harbor/ 2001)<br />
Kill van Kull, and the Long Island Sound. The Hudson River flows between Brooklyn<br />
and Staten Island into a larger bay area, which opens up into the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> Bight and<br />
Atlantic Ocean as shown in Figure 1.<br />
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