Full presentations (and abstracts) from the Third Passaic River Symposium are now available on the Symposium web site, http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/pri/symposium2008/
The program booklet, which includes all abstracts, is available on the web site as well.
The Symposium was organized by the Passaic River Institute of Montclair State University, held on October 16 2008 on the University campus. It featured the "Lower Passaic River Restoration Project" as well as projects and issues in the upper River and tributary watersheds such as flooding and phosphorus loading. Congressman Bill Pascrell gave opening remarks. The heads of three major agencies spoke (USEPA Region 2, NJDEP, US Corps of Engineers NY District), giving an update on Passaic Basin issues from their agencies' perspectives. The Symposium attracted about 280 participants.
You can read a wrap-up story about the Symposium on from the Montclair State web site,
http://www.montclair.edu/news/article.php?ChannelID=7&ArticleID=2761
This page also has links to media coverage of the symposium.
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