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The Station Recreation Assessment Results represents the water quality results for all monitoring stations associated with the Recreation designated use included in the 2016 NJ Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report (Integrated Report). This data represents the assessment results at monitoring stations in NJ's 958 assessment units to determine if the Recreation designated use was attained and the results for the 4 bacterial parameters associated with the designated use. The bacterial parameters include E. Coli – associated with freshwaters, Enterococcus – associated with saline waters, Beach Closings – based on enterococcus data in saline waters, Fecal Coliform – associated with downgraded saline waters (SE2 and SE3) that only support secondary recreational use. The data reflects which of three sublists each assessment was assigned: Sublist 2- Full Attaining, Sublist 3- Insufficient data was available to assess, Sublist 5- Non-Attaining. Because of the number of stations originally assessed, any station where all parameters had insufficient data for an assessment were excluded from this file. |