Subject: killcohook & more on a border<br/>
Date: Feb 10, 2005 @ 23:47<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1087695146">ron<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Some of you in the USA may be aware that<br/>
&gt; a little piece of land connected to New Jersey<br/>
&gt; extends out into the Delaware River<br/>
&gt; into the territory the state of Delaware.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>indeed this was mentioned as recently as this morning in 16638<br/>
<br/>
& there is a similar but smaller & less well known piece of <br/>
delaware connected to new jersey behind the salem nj nuclear <br/>
plant where they dump their waste<br/>
<br/>
i have visited both of them<br/>
<br/>
with luck you will be able to see killcohook at the top & the other <br/>
bit sticking up at the bottom of this topo frame<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/5rv4a">http://tinyurl.com/5rv4a</a><br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Many years ago the US Army Corps of Engineers<br/>
&gt; kept dumping dirt out in the river<br/>
&gt; until it built up past the border.<br/>
&gt; I don&#39;t think this was their intention;<br/>
&gt; they just needed to dump a lot of dirt.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>hmm<br/>
i wonder if it was so unintentional tho<br/>
<br/>
the border there was formerly the natural riverbank itself<br/>
<br/>
so they couldnt have added any backfill that converted any wet <br/>
new jersey into dry new jersey<br/>
<br/>
& i imagined all these additions were to protect the new jersey <br/>
bank below them from the ravages of floods<br/>
<br/>
the dirt could easily have been dredged from the river too<br/>
<br/>
but like mark twain i dont really know either<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; This little tip of land is now part<br/>
&gt; of the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge,<br/>
&gt; formerly the Killcohook N. W. R.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Approximately<br/>
&gt;  N 39º 25&#39; 30&#39;  W 075º 26&#39; 30<br/>
<br/>
&gt; Speaking of great circle calculators<br/>
&gt; on the &quot;Russia Extremes...&quot; thread<br/>
&gt; (an interesting one), I have a freeware<br/>
&gt; great circle/geodesic calculator GCGC<br/>
&gt; on my web site below.<br/>
&gt; GCGC has been accepted by the US NGS<br/>
&gt; as &quot;User Contributed Software.&quot;<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>thanx<br/>
i love this stuff too<br/>
<br/>
can your tech improve on anything in it<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Have fun.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Cheers, 73,<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Ron McC.<br/>
&gt; w2iol@a...<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Ronald C. McConnell, PhD<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;  WGS-84: N 40º 46&#39; 57.9&quot;  +/-0.1&quot;<br/>
&gt;          W 74º 41&#39; 21.3&quot;  +/-0.1&quot;<br/>
&gt;          FN20ps.77GU96 +/-<br/>
&gt;          V +5058  H +1504<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt;  &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~rcmcc">http://home.earthlink.net/~rcmcc</a>&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I was gratified to be able<br/>
&gt; to answer promptly, and I did.<br/>
&gt; I said I didn&#39;t know.<br/>
&gt;  - Mark Twain </span></blockquote></div>