Shipping piers of Brooklyn, New York, with Manhattan in the background.
04/1974
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Full Caption: Shipping piers of Brooklyn, New York, with Manhattan in the background. The New York, New Jersey Metropolitan region is one of the most congested urban and industrial areas in the world. Stress factors include air and water pollution, destruction of wetlands which are nurseries of marine life, coastal over-development and ocean dumping. All there factors affect the waters of the New York bight.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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555726Full Citation: Shipping piers of Brooklyn, New York, with Manhattan in the background.; 04/1974; Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, Record Group 412. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/shipping-piers-of-brooklyn-new-york-with-manhattan-in-the-background, May 9, 2024]