Rahway river 6/29/19:

[AndyS]

Central Jersey Stream Team clean up Rahway river.

[Pondhopper8]

Awesome, I am from and grew up there, glad to see proactivity in trying to put a dent in pollution ruining a river that holds a lot of fishing memories for me. First place Shucker took me fishing!

[icebadger]

that is a s$#T load of garbage andy great job getting it out of the river. how did you guys get those big box like objects out ? and whats up with the bowling balls are they using them for weights i did not know the current was that bad down there

[FASTEDDIE29]

Ahhhhh yes, home sweet home! That is an amazing clean up! Lots of hard work there. Wow! Thanks to everyone involved. Any body parts or test monkeys from Merck found? Haha!

[Billfish715]

Everything flows downstream. In this case, the tidal part of the Rahway is about as downstream as you can get. There is current in that section but for that much junk to be washed there from too far from where it was dumped seems unlikely. There would have had to be a biblical flood to move that much stuff from too far upstream.

Still, it was there and now it's gone and that is fantastic. We are all better off because of your efforts and those of your volunteers. That river is where many of us old timers were introduced to fishing. I've seen it undergo many alterations to curtail the inevitable flooding but places like Cranford still backup and spill into the neighborhoods. The biggest eyesores in the upper river are all of the floatables that wash into it. I pick up what I can, when I can, where I can, but it's a big river.

Keep up the great work, Andy.

[akoop]

Hey Andy,
Great job as always!!

What is the strangest thing you guys ever pulled out of a river?