{"id":210459,"date":"2022-03-21T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?p=210459"},"modified":"2022-03-21T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:21:38","slug":"beached-docked-dumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2022\/03\/21\/beached-docked-dumped\/","title":{"rendered":"Beached, docked & dumped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracking abandoned boats is not required by federal law, so states that see a benefit in doing so are left to invest in creating publicly-viewable maps on their own. A New Jersey State Police spokesman said the agency has not considered the utility of launching that kind of database.<\/p>\n

But Montclair professor Bologna sees the upshot of such a proposal.<\/p>\n

It would be very beneficial to tag these abandoned boats for the people that use that water for commercial or recreational purposes \u2026 It lets people know there\u2019s a navigational hazard there. [Abandoned boats can have] fuel, oil, and other materials that are relatively toxic, that can leach out into the environment over a period of time \u2026 and those can be detrimental to the organisms that are nearby, as well as the water.<\/p>\n