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Article: New Jersey Forces Towns to Clean Rainwater Runoff Tainted by Households.
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- August 31, 2003
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By Colleen Diskin, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 31--Hours after the rain stops in Bergen County, it is still pouring over parts of the Hackensack River.
From a downspout under a New Jersey Turnpike bridge, oil- and grit-filled water gushes like it's coming from an overturned, bottomless bucket. Upriver, garbage-laden sediment builds up on the banks, where culverts dump rainwater from the streets of neighboring Bogota and all points uphill.
The pollution coming from these pipes isn't the product of chemical companies or sewage treatment plants; it comes from Joe and Jane New Jersey, living their ...