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Toms River

The Toms River, formerly Tom's River, is a 41.7-mile-long (67.1 km) freshwater river and estuary in Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States.

The Toms River rises in the Pine Barrens of northern Ocean County and flows southeast and east, fed by several branches, in a meandering course through wetland area and empties into Barnegat Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The lower 5 mi (8 km) of the river is a broad tidal estuary navigable within the community of Toms River. The lowest reaches of the river provide convenient locations for marinas and yacht clubs and excellent points from which to go fishing and crabbing. Canoeing and kayaking are also popular pursuits on the Toms. The river can be paddled for 21.7 miles (34.9 km) from Don Connor Boulevard below Route 528 all the way to Barnegat Bay.

In the 1960s, the lower river was found to have been polluted for many years from the open discharge of waste from a Ciba Geigy dye manufacturing plant. This was considered to have been the cause of a cancer cluster of leukaemia in the Toms River township that led to multimillion-dollar compensation payments to the families involved. There is a 'great deal of uncertainty' as to if the pollution was a causal factor in the cancer cluster. A 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning book examined the issue in detail. Recent public-private coalitions to restore the river and to purchase and preserve the wetland areas near its source in the Pinelands have resulted in an increase in water quality.

Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (2013) is a non-fiction book by American author Dan Fagin. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies in Toms River, New Jersey beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for General Nonfiction. Abigail Zuger, writing in the New York Times, said it was "surely a new classic of science reporting".

Editions

  • Dan Fagin (March 19, 2013). Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553806533. 
  • Audiobook narrated by Dan Woren, published by Random House Audio, March 19, 2013
  • Ebook editions
  • References

    External links

  • The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, April 2013
  • Toms River (disambiguation)

    Toms River is a freshwater river and estuary in New Jersey

    Toms River may also refer to:

    Toms River, New Jersey

    Communities

  • Toms River, New Jersey, township in Ocean County
  • Toms River CDP, New Jersey, census-designated place and unincorporated area located within the above township
  • South Toms River, New Jersey, borough in Ocean County
  • Schools

  • Toms River Regional Schools, regional public school district in Toms River, New Jersey
  • Toms River High School East
  • Toms River High School North
    • Toms River Fest, festival event held at the campus of Toms River High School North
  • Toms River Fest, festival event held at the campus of Toms River High School North
  • Toms River High School South
  • Other

  • Toms River Railroad, defunct New Jersey railroad
  • Toms River (book), 2013 nonfiction book by Dan Fagin
  • See also

  • Long Tom River, tributary of the Willamette River, in western Oregon, USA
  • Tom River, river in Russia, right tributary of the Ob
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