Administrator: Leslie McGeorge NJDEP-BFBM Bureau of Freshwater & Biological Monitoring Mail Code 35-01 P.O. Box 420 35 Arctic Parkway Trenton, NJ 08625-0427 Phone: (609) 292-0427 FAX: (609) 633-1095 (click this graphic to view the Barnegat Bay Action Plan)

The Bureau of Freshwater and Biological Monitoring is responsible for several multi-year monitoring programs, some of which have served as prototypes for the nation. The bureau's programs are:

• Special Water Quality Monitoring projects with emphasis on watershed monitoring. These special monitoring initiatives are efficiently combining biological and chemical/physical monitoring as part of emerging state and federal strategies to more realistically assess the success of State and Federal Clean Water Act Programs. The sampling stations include surfacewater as well as groundwater monitoring.

• Operation of the NJDEP's Biological Monitoring Program of benthic macroinvertebrates for the analysis of ambient biomonitoring (AMNET) and bioassay parameters.

• Fish Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI), fish sampling, identification and analysis for stream quality.  

• Didymo occurrence and prevention in NJ streams.(Webinar)   

• Sediment Toxicity testing for the analysis of suspected sediment toxicity.

• Administration of the NJDEP Ambient Lake Monitoring Network.

The Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring provides monitoring support for estuarine coastal and marine waters.

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