A small portion of the study area, in northeast New Jersey, lies within the Piedmont Physiographic Province (Wolfe, 1977).įigure 1.
Most of the area lies within the Coastal Plain Physiographic Province, which is characterized by elevations typically less than 100 feet above North American Vertical Datum of 1988 and by marshes bordering numerous streams and estuaries (Wolfe, 1977) ( fig. The study area covers the coastal regions of New Jersey, including the barrier islands, the back bays, the near-shore environment from Hackensack to Cape May, the Delaware Bay, and the Delaware River ( fig. These data are transmitted to computer base stations located at offices of the National Weather Service, New Jersey State Police (NJSP), NJDOT, county emergency management agencies, other critical decision-making centers, and the World Wide Web (DESCRIPTION OF STUDY AREA The NJTTS supplies comprehensive, reliable real-time tide-level and meteorological data for flood-prone areas along the New Jersey shore and back bays. This system is part of a statewide network of tide gages, weather stations, and stream gages that collect data in real time. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), designed and installed the New Jersey Tide Telemetry System (NJTTS) with assistance from NOAA’s NOS in 1997. A slow moving Nor’easter can keep tide levels in back bays several feet higher than the ocean tide by not allowing tides to recede, resulting in flooding of bridges and causeways that link the barrier islands to the mainland. The back bays behave quite differently than the ocean as a result of the complex interaction between the winds and the geometry of the inlets and bays. Comprehensive and reliable tide-level and meteorological data for the back bays was needed to make accurate flood forecasts.Ĭollection of tidal data for the ocean and large bays was adequately covered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service (NOAA’s NOS), but in New Jersey little to no data are available for the back-bay areas. Most of the damage was due to tidal flooding and storm surge, which were especially severe along the back bay areas. The “Great Nor’easter” storm that struck the coastal areas of New Jersey on December 11, 1992, caused about $270 million in insured damages to public and private property (Dorr and others, 1995). Timely evacuation depends on well-defined emergency evacuation plans used in conjunction with accurate flood forecasting and up to the minute (real-time) tide-level information.
When a coastal storm threatens these communities, the limited number of bridges and causeways that connect the islands with the mainland become overcrowded, making evacuations from the barrier islands to the mainland difficult.
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To view or print PDF files, the freely downloadable Adobe Acrobat Reader® may be used.Įach summer the population of the barrier-island communities of New Jersey increases by tens of thousands. This publication is downloadable in PDF format.
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