CHERRY HILL, N.J., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- New Jersey American's largest water treatment plant is also its most environmentally friendly.

By JIM WRIGHT, STAFF WRITER Should New Jersey borrow $200 million to preserve open space at a time when the state is $33.7 billion in debt? That's the question facing voters on Election Day next week. Conservationists say that despite the Garden State's financial crunch, the answer is yes.

By Castagna, JoAnne Four wetland restorations give promise to the future of these unique public lands. Ebony Howard, an eighth-grade student from Elizabeth, N.J., stands on a pier and carefully lifts a starfish from a water-filled glass aquarium as her giggling classmates surround her.

By JIM FREDA The weather cooperated nicely for the start of the winter flounder season and continued through this week. This made for good to great action depending on which location you set up at anchor.

By Castagna, JoAnne A U.S. Corps of Engineers project restores wetlands to create a public park. In the summer of 2006, a volunteer from the Somerset County Historical Society warmly welcomed Army Corps visitors at the historic Van Veghten House in Somerset County, N.J.