The Hackensack River
05/28/26
“What’s special about the Hackensack River in New Jersey?”
New Jersey has many rivers. One of them, The Hackensack River, is an anchor for North Jersey. With its headwaters in what’s now Southeastern New York, it strikes a meandering path almost parallel to the hudson before draining into the New Jersey Meadowlands. The lower portion of the Hackensack river is heavily polluted from industrial runoff and sewage. At one point, the Hackensack River was a hypoxic dead zone.
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