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Artificial Reef Sites (21/27)

Artificial Reefs

Dutch Springs
Huntington Artificial Reef
Kismet Artificial Reef
Matinecock Artificial Reef
Mattituck Artificial Reef
New Reef
Port Jefferson Artificial Reef
Smithtown Artificial Reef
Yellowbar Artificial Reef

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Rock & Rubble

All manner of concrete, steel, and stone rubble from dredging, demolition projects, and other construction is used as artificial reef materials. This material is generally available at very low cost or free from construction companies who are more than happy to get rid of it. Transportation costs determine where this material is used by the Reef Program.

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Rock Ridges

This site on the Shark River Artificial Reef consists of two long ridges of seven huge rock piles each, with one long valley east-west between them. Between piles, there are smaller valleys. Each ridge contains approximately two million tons ( or one million cubic yards ) of granite, blasted and dredged from the bottom of New York harbor between September 2002 and September 2003. Peak depths range from 85 to 105 ft, bottom depth is 130 ft. In addition, 15 Redbird subway cars were deposited on or near one of the piles. A similar rockpile is located in shallower water on the Axel Carlson Reef.

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Rockland County

Type:: artificial reef, towboat
Built:: 1960, Dravo, Wilmington DE USA
Specs:: ( 105 x 24 ft )
Sponsor:: Spentonbush Red Star Company
Sunk:: Friday February 14, 1986 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°07.942' -73°55.879'
Depth:: 80 ft

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Ronde Joyce II

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: 1941, ? Pascagoula MS USA ?
Specs:: ( 62 x 17 ft )
Sponsor:: Coffey, Graybowski, Clark's Landing Marina, Mercury Marine
Sunk:: Thursday August 5, 1993 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°06.486' -73°57.224'
Depth:: 65 ft

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Rothenbach I YON-97

Type:: artificial reef, barge, fuel oil, US Navy
Built:: 1944, DeKom SB, Brooklyn NY USA
Specs:: ( 165 x 35 ft ) 220 tons (empty) 1270 displacement tons (full)
Sponsor:: Rothenbach & Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association
Sunk:: Wednesday June 11, 1997 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°53.368' -74°39.800'

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Rothenbach II YON-96

Type:: artificial reef, barge, gasoline, US Navy
Built:: 1944, DeKom SB, Brooklyn NY USA
Specs:: ( 165 x 35 ft ) 220 tons (empty) 1270 displacement tons (full)
Sponsor:: Rothenbach family, US Navy
Sunk:: Friday July 10, 1998 - Great Egg Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°14.498' -74°21.483'

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salt barge

Type:: artificial reef, barge
Built:: circa 1940
Specs:: ( 150 x38 ft )
Sponsor:: US Navy, NJCDC, Carbon Services Corp, Artificial Reef Association, Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association
Sunk:: Friday April 9, 1993 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°50.959' -74°42.385'

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Sam Berman

Type:: artificial reef, tanker
Built:: 1947, Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Brooklyn NY USA as Philip Lemler
Specs:: ( 160 x 30 ft ) 478 tons
Sponsor:: Crystal Oil Corporation, Marine Trades Assn. of NJ, Fisherman Magazine
Sunk:: Thursday September 10, 1987 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°06.440' -73°41.180'
Depth:: 125 ft

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Sandy Point

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: 1947, Gulfport Shipbuilding, Port Arthur, TX, as Captain Chris Harms
Specs:: ( 85 ft )
Sunk:: Wednesday March 10, 2010 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°40.540' -74°43.957'

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Sea Mist

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1976, Belhaven, NC USA ?
Specs:: ( 55 ft )
Sunk:: Saturday April 23, 1994 - Shinnecock Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: 40°48.173' -72°28.489'

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August 17, 2022

Manasquan Inlet Filling In

August 17, 2022

N.J. Shore inlet to be surveyed after large sandbar forms

By Nicolas Fernandes
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Aug. 17, 2022

Sand piling up in Manasquan Inlet

*Linda Anne*, a 38-foot sportfishing boat based in Manasquan, heads outbound from Manasquan Inlet on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Manasquan. Sand has piled up along the south jetty, which some say has created hazardous navigational conditions as well as a new beach inside the inlet.
Andrew Mills | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The Army Corps of Engineers will visit the Manasquan Inlet next week to survey a large sandbar that has formed in the waterway, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-4th Dist., said Wednesday.

Sands at the inlet have shifted before, but the low-tide sandbar is larger than anything seen there before, the congressman said.

"We are gravely concerned that it will pose a serious hazard to navigation," Smith said.

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