Near the end of last year, Ocean County Soil Conservation District staff members Kristin Adams and Rachel Hammack partnered with David Steinmann and Adam DeWolf, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, for a subaqueous soil sampling project in the Mullica River and Great Bay – the former of which drains into the latter. Great Bay, then, flows to the Atlantic Ocean via Little Egg Inlet.
Subaqueous soils, as Adams and Steinmann explained, are soils submerged for more than 21 hours each day, “better known…
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