The Passaic River is listed as the fourth-most-endangered river in the country. The top three are the Mississippi, the Tijuana, and the rivers of Appalachia. The Passaic River has been named one ...

A search was under way Monday for a worker who was swept away in the Passaic River in New Jersey. Jun 15 ... on a barge is scooping up debris and dumping it in a large bin sitting on the barge.

The Passaic is the longest river within New Jersey, stretching 80 miles from ... “Our waters now contain pharmaceutical waste with people dumping unwanted or expired medication down the toilet.

Two companies sued by the state to recover clean-up costs for decades-old dioxin dumping ... including NJ Transit, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Passaic Valley Sewerage ...

PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- Communities along the Passaic River remained under a flood ... but the coastal storm was loaded with tropical moisture, dumping a ton of rain on already saturated ...

It has become known as "The River of Death." New Jersey's Passaic River is the all-but-official dumping ground for the dead, be they murders or suicides. "The river is so disgusting, the way it ...

NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) --U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials have unveiled a plan for the cleanup of the heavily contaminated Passaic River in New Jersey. As CBS2's Vanessa ...

Industrial pollution in the Passaic dates back more than 150 years when some of the country's first large textile mills began dumping ... river's toxic material, they said. For three decades New ...

The Passaic River has been named one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2025, with a national conservation group citing toxic industrial pollution along the river’s lower stretch as a long ...