The Delaware Bay Cape Shore Area
NJ Department of Environmental ProtectionWater Monitoring and StandardsReappraisal Report of Shellfish Classificationfor Growing Area DB2(The Delaware Bay – Cape Shore Area)December 2014State of New JerseyChris Christie, GovernorKim Guadagno, Lt. GovernorNJ Department of Environmental ProtectionBob Martin, Commissioneri
Reappraisal Report of Shellfish Classificationfor Growing Area DB2(The Delaware Bay – Cape Shore Area)New Jersey Department of Environmental ProtectionWater Resources ManagementMichele Siekerka, Assistant CommissionerWater Monitoring and StandardsJill Lipoti, DirectorBureau of Marine Water MonitoringBruce Friedman, Bureau ChiefDecember 2014Report prepared by:Paul WesighanAcknowledgements:This report was written and published under the direction of Bruce Friedman, Bureau Chief. MikeKusmiesz and Julie Nguyen assisted in the collection and storage of statistical and GIS data used inanalysis. Special acknowledgment is given to Captain Marc Resciniti for perseverance in collectingshellfish water quality samples. This study would not have been completed without the aid of theanalytical capabilities of our microbiology laboratory staff, including Elena Heller, Robert Seabrook,Carrie Lloyd and Abole Oyelade (advanced microbiology lab); and our chemistry laboratory staff,including Bill Heddendorf (interim supervisor – microbiology and chemistry labs), Eric Ernst, andDawn Thompson, with overall supervision by Bob Schuster, Section Chief.Cover Photo – Cape May Point Lighthouse, Cape May Point, NJ (photo by Paul Wesighan onApril 2, 2015).ii
TABLE OF CONTENTEXECUTIVE SUMMARY . 1DESCRIPTION OF GROWING AREA . 2Location & Description. 2Growing Area Classification. 4Evaluation of Biological Resources . 6SHORELINE SURVEY: EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL POLLUTION SOURCES . 8Shoreline Survey . 8Land Use . 8Known Contaminated Sites. 10Surface Water Discharges . 10Marinas . 12Groundwater Discharges . 13Spills, Unpermitted Discharges, and Closures . 14Naturally Occurring Pathogens . 14Stormwater Discharges . 17WATER QUALITIES STUDIES . 18Sampling Strategy . 18Methods. 19Bacteriological Quality . 20Compliance with NSSP APC Criteria. 20Seasonal Effects . 21RELATED STUDIES . 22Toxic Monitoring . 22Mussel Watch Sampling Stations . 23CONCLUSIONS . 24RECOMMENDATIONS. 24LITERATURE CITED . 24i
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYShellfish Growing Area DB2, The Delaware Bay – Cape Shore Area, is located in the southwesternpart of New Jersey. It borders the shoreline of the Delaware Bay from East Point in Maurice RiverTownship, Cumberland County, and extends southeast to Cape May Point in Cape May County.The approximate size of this shellfishgrowing area is 34,528 acres, and theshellfish classification for this growingarea is Approved (86.2%), SeasonallyApproved (November to April) (5.7%),and Prohibited (8.1%) for shellfishharvesting (as seen in the figure to theright).This report includes water quality datacollected between January 1, 2011 toSeptember 30, 2014 using the AdversePollution Condition (APC) strategy forall of the sampling stations in thisgrowing area because there is onepermitted indirect discharge to thisshellfish growing area. That is thedischarge pipe for the WastewaterTreatment Facility at Bayside StatePrison, which discharges into RigginsDitch. Approximately 960 watersamples were analyzed for fecalcoliform bacteria from 46 monitoringstations. All but two sampling stations(3880 and 3895F) were in compliancewith the fecal coliform criteria for theApproved,SeasonallyApproved(January to April), and Prohibitedclassifications of this shellfish growing area, as specified by the National Shellfish SanitationProgram (NSSP). Sampling Station 3880 is located south of East Point in Approved shellfish watersand Sampling Station 3895F is located southwest of the mouth of Dias Creek in Approved shellfishwaters and both of these sampling stations exceeded the shellfish classification criteria, year-roundand in the summer, for these waters. The overall water quality for this growing area is generallygood. There were no significant changes to land use patterns, hydrography, or pollution dischargesto this area that would change the shellfish classification of the shellfish waters in this area, asdocumented in the shoreline survey included in this report. Since it was the second year thatSampling Station 3880 exceeded the existing Approved shellfish classification criteria, five newsampling stations were added to the area around this sampling station to determine the size of thearea that would need to be downgraded in the future.1
DESCRIPTION OF GROWING AREALocation & DescriptionShellfish Growing Area DB2 is located in the southwestern part of New Jersey (see figure on nextpage). This shellfish growing area borders the shoreline of the Delaware Bay from East Point inMaurice River Township, Cumberland County, and extends southeast to Cape May Point in CapeMay County. The northwestern edge of this shellfish growing area is located south of East Point,which is east of the mouth of the Maurice River at the border between this shellfish growing areaand Shellfish Growing Area DB1 (The Delaware Bay from Maurice River Cove to ArtificialIsland). The western edge of this shellfish growing area is located about 1.4 miles south of theshoreline bordering the coast of Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, about 2.5 mileswest of the shoreline bordering the coast of Dennis Township in Cape May County, and about 1.7miles west of the shoreline bordering the coast of Lower Township in Cape May County at theborder between this shellfish growing area and Shellfish Growing Area DB3 (The Delaware BayOffshore – Cross Ledge, Deadmans & Brandywine Shoal). The southeastern edge of this shellfishgrowing area is located southeast of Cape May Point at the border between this shellfish growingarea and the southwest edge of Shellfish Growing Area AO South (The Atlantic Ocean from CapeMay Point to Absecon Inlet).This shellfish growing area also includes Riggins Ditch, West Creek, East Creek, Dennis Creek,Roaring Ditch, Old Robins Branch, Crow Creek, Sluice Creek, Goshen Creek, Bidwell Creek, DiasCreek, Fishing Creek, Cox Hall Creek, and smaller tidal tributaries.2
The municipalities on the shore of this shellfish growing area include Maurice River Township inCumberland County, and Dennis Township, Middle Township, Lower Township, and Cape MayPoint Borough in Cape May County. The locations of these municipalities are shown in the figure tothe right. Population statistics for theadjacent municipalities can be found ina reappraisal report of this shellfishgrowing area, which was written inMarch 2008 and included thepopulation statistics from the 2000census of this area.In Cumberland County, Riggins Ditchand West Creek drain into this shellfishgrowing area. In Cape May County,West Creek, East Creek, Dennis Creek,Roaring Ditch, Old Robins Branch,Crow Creek, Sluice Creek, GoshenCreek, Bidwell Creek, Dias Creek,Green Creek, Fishing Creek, Cox HallCreek, Pond Creek, and the Cape MayCanal drain into this shellfish growingarea. This shellfish growing area drainsthrough the Cape May Channel into theAtlantic Ocean.The approximate size of this shellfishgrowing area is about 34,528 acres. Theshellfish classification for this growingarea is Approved, Seasonally Approved(November to April), and Prohibited forshellfish harvesting. The SeasonallyApproved (November to April) waters are located in the north part of this shellfish growing areasouth of Thompsons Beach and Moores Beach. The Prohibited waters are located west of the CapeMay Canal, in Cox Hall Creek, in Fishing Creek, in Dias Creek, in Bidwell Creek, in Goshen Creek,in Dennis Creek, in East Creek, in West Creek, and in Riggins Ditch. The Approved waters includethe rest of the waters in this shellfish growing area.3
Growing Area ClassificationThe primary shellfish classifications of this growing area are Approved, Seasonally Approved(November to April), and Prohibited, and the approximate size of this shellfish growing area is34,528 acres. There are approximately 29,766 acres of Approved waters, 1,967 acres of SeasonallyApproved (November to April)waters, and 2,795 acres ofProhibited waters in this shellfishgrowing area. The figure on thenext page shows the currentclassification of this shellfishgrowing area.The Seasonally Approved(November to April) waters arelocated in the west part of BidwellCreek and in the inshore part of theDelaware Bay west of West Creek.The Prohibited waters are locatedin Riggins Ditch, West Creek, EastCreek, Dennis Creek, RoaringDitch, Old Robins Branch, CrowCreek, Sluice Creek, Goshen Creek,the east part of Bidwell Creek, DiasCreek, Fishing Creek, Cox HallCreek, in the inshore part of theDelaware Bay that extends fromWest Creek to Goshen Creek, and asmall area of the Delaware Baywest of the Cape May Canal. TheApproved waters are located in theDelaware Bay from East Point toCape May Point, excluding the areas already mentioned above. The Prohibited shellfishclassification includes Riggins Ditch, because the NJDOC Bayside State Prison Sewage TreatmentPlant directly discharges treated wastewater from the outfall pipe into the waters of Riggins Ditch,which flows into the north part of this shellfish growing area. There are also two marinas in BidwellCreek and the docking facilities for the Cape May – Lewes Ferry in the Cape May Canal thatrequire buffer zones; these determine the shellfish classification for Bidwell Creek and the smallarea in the Delaware Bay to the west of the Cape May Canal in this shellfish growing area.In the reappraisal report written for DB2 in 1997, the areas of Dividing Creek and the MauriceRiver Cove were included as part of Shellfish Growing Area DB2, which extended from DividingCreek in Downe Township, Cumberland County to Cape May Point in Cape May County.In the August 2000 Sanitary Survey of Shellfish Growing Area DB2, this shellfish growing areawas restructured to coincide with the State watershed planning and management areas, and Dividing4
Creek and the Maurice River Cove became part of Shellfish Growing Area DB1 (Watkins, 2000).The boundaries of Shellfish Growing Area DB2 were then changed to extend from East Point inMaurice River Township, Cumberland County to Cape May Point in Cape May County. In the 2000report, all of the sampling stations in this shellfish growing area were in compliance with the totalcoliform criteria for the existing water quality shellfish classification criteria, and there were norecommended shellfish classification changes for this area.In the November 2003 Reappraisal of the Delaware Bay Cape Shore, one sampling station(Sampling Station 3893) exceeded the total and fecal coliform criteria year-round and in thesummer for the Approved shellfish classification. Sampling Station 3893 is located northwest of themouth of Dias Creek in Approved shellfish waters. In this report, it was determined that the bacteriacounts were higher during the summer months and were most likely impacted by boating activityand increased population pressures from the summer tourism industry. Therefore, due to thelocation and close proximity of this sampling station to the sampling stations that were incompliance, no classification changes were made at that time (Nguyen, 2003).In the 2011 Annual Reviews of Shellfish Growing Area DB2, no classification changes wereproposed (NJDEP, 2011, NJDEP, 2012). No sampling stations in this shellfish growing areaexceeded the existing shellfish classification criteria, and the data supported the existing shellfishclassifications for this area.In the 2012 Annual Reviews of Shellfish Growing Area DB2, one sampling station (3880) exceededthe Approved shellfish classification criteria. This sampling station is located south of East Point inApproved shellfish waters. It was recommended that this sampling station be closely monitoredduring shoreline surveys of this area since it was the only sampling station in the area to exceed itsexisting shellfish classification.In the 2013-2014 Annual Review of Shellfish Growing Area DB2, two sampling stations (SamplingStations 3880 and 3895F) exceeded the existing Approved shellfish classification criteria. SamplingStation 3880 is located south of East Point in Approved shellfish waters and Sampling Station3895F is located southwest of the mouth of Dias Creek in Approved shellfish waters and both ofthese sampling stations exceeded the shellfish classification criteria, year-round and in the summer,for these waters. In the Annual Review, it was recommended that these sampling stations be closelymonitored during shoreline surveys of this area. Since it was the second year that Sampling Station3880 exceeded the existing Approved shellfish classification criteria, five new sampling stationswere added to the area around this sampling station to determine the size of the area that wouldneed to be downgraded in the future. The last Sanitary Survey for this growing area was written in2000.The figure on the preceding page illustrates the shellfish classification for this growing area. Theshellfish classification of this area can be seen in the 2014 State of New Jersey Shellfish GrowingWater Classification Charts booklet on chart number 18, or on WM&S/BMWM’s website athttp://www.state.nj.us/dep/bmw/.5
Evaluation of Biological ResourcesThis growing area has a wide diversity of biological resources. The total shellfish landings for NewJersey from 2011 to 2014 can be seen in the table below (NMFS, 2015). The total shellfish landingsincludes hard clams, soft clams, blue mussels, bay scallops, eastern oysters, ocean quahogs, surfclams, sea scallops, and blue crabs. Shellfish landing statistics had not been verified and posted for2014 at the time this reappraisal report was written.New Jersey Shellfish Landings - 2011 to 2014 (NMFS, 2015).NEW JERSEY SHELLFISH LANDINGS2011 to 2014YEAR2011201220132014POUNDS OFMEAT(millions)65,425,59857,692,49846,002,626* VALUE(exvessel) 177,229,339 146,048,687 96,407,954** No DataThe cities of Port Norris and Bivalve, along the Maurice River in Cumberland County, were onceknown as the hub of the Delaware Bay oyster industry, and Bivalve was once recognized to be theoyster capital of the world for its oyster production and processing industries. Their oyster industryprocessed and delivered thousands of pounds of oysters to markets all over the eastern coast of theUnited States (Flemlin and Tweed, 2000, Matassino, et al, 2002).The population of oysters in the Delaware Bay had fluctuated widely. In the early 1900’s, annualoyster landings were from one million to two million bushels. However, in the 1950’s, the oysterpopulation was reduced dramatically by the disease MSX, which is caused by the parasiteHaplosporidium nelsoni. Only 49,000 bushels of oysters were harvested in the Delaware Bay in1960. There was a gradual increase in the numbers of oysters harvested in the late 1960’s and early1970’s. Then, in 1990, a new disease named Dermo was found to be spreading among the oysterpopulation on the eastern side of the Delaware Bay and it caused heavy losses of both planted andseeded oysters. Dermo is caused by the parasite Perkinsus marinus. In 1988, juvenile oyster disease(JOD) also became a serious problem for oyster nurseries in the northeastern Atlantic region. Thecausative agent for JOD is unknown (Guo, Dr. Ximing, and Dr. John Kraeuter, 2000). While MSX,Dermo and JOD are diseases of oysters, they do not infect humans and therefore do not have anypublic health significance.The Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory of Rutgers University has attempted to develop diseaseresistant strains of oysters that show a resistance to MSX. Their long-term oyster-breeding programhas genetically produced a disease resistant strain of oysters for MSX, and they have alsogenetically produced an oyster with some resistance to Dermo. These disease-resistant oysters are6
the main production line for the Atlantic Cape Fisheries oyster farm in Cape May (Guo andKraeuter, 2000).The Delaware Bay also contains the world’s largest population of horseshoe crabs (Linuluspolyphemus). New Jersey reported an increase in horseshoe crab harvests from approximately250,000 animals in 1993 to over 600,800 in 1996. However, due to an alarming drop in the adultcrabs seen spawning on the beaches, a moratorium was placed on their collection for 1998. In NewJersey for 2003, the landings for horseshoe crabs were 367,553 pounds harvested for an exvesselvalue of 193,605 (NJDEP, 2005). In New Jersey for 2005, the landings for horseshoe crabs were330,714 pounds harvested for an exvessel value of 120,782 (NMFS, 2008). After 2005, there wasa moratorium placed on the harvest of horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay, and horseshoe crablandings for 2006 were 9,141 pounds harvested for an exvessel value of 3,474 (NMFS, 2008). Atotal moratorium was placed on the harvest of horseshoe crabs for 2007 and, from 2007 to 2014; theNational Marine Fisheries Service had no values
a reappraisal report of this shellfish growing area, which was written in March 2008 and included the population statistics from the 2000 census of this area. In Cumberland County, Riggins Ditch and West Creek drain into this shellfish growing area. In Cape May County, West Creek, East Creek, Dennis Creek,
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