GIS Application: Environmental Resources Inventory: Case Study: Borough of Oceanport

GIS Application:
Environmental Resources Inventory
Case Study: Borough of Oceanport
Prepared: by Ako Omer

Ako Faisal
Halwest Ali
Rishwan Rostam
Rabar Muhammad
Intro to GIS - Spring 2012
to GIS - Spring 2012
Environmental Resource Inventory

• The Environmental Resource Inventory (ERI), also called Natural
Resource Inventory (NRI), or Index of Natural Resources, is a
compilation of text and visual information about the natural
resource characteristics and environmental features of an area.
• The Municipal Land Use Law (MLUL) (N.J.S.A.40:55D-1 et seq.)
requires municipalities to have a land use plan element in their
master plan, “including but not necessarily limited to, topography,
soil conditions, water supply, drainage, flood plain areas, marshes,
and woodlands...” (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28b(2)).
Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

• Environmental commissions will find that most of the basic
information needed for an ERI has already been collected by
agency. The challenge is to find out which information is where.
Environmental Resource Inventory

• Currently, the Oceanport Environmental Commission is developing
their ERI.
• This project confirmed that NJDEP and Monmouth County GIS

Office has the information needed to develop a ERI in GIS format.
• The project prepared the following GIS documents:

• Base Map
• Geology - Bedrock, Surface, and Historic Fill
• Watersheds
• Land Cover - Land Use and Forest Type
• Habitats
• Proposed projects
Base Map

Base Map
• Oceanport is a “home of Monmouth Park Racetrack and
Fort Monmouth. Though only 3.2 square miles,
Oceanport’s nearly six thousand residents enjoy not only
the Shrewsbury River, but various recreational sports
programs, an active senior group and a true feeling of
community.”
• Two elementary schools, several parks both municipal
and county.
• Population 6000 people, approximately 800 children
under 14, and 700 dogs.
• Two firehouses and dispatch service with West Long
Branch
Bedrock Geology Map
Bedrock Geology
• The Hornerstown formation is dark greenish gray, very
clayey glauconite sand to micaceous, quartzose,
glauconite sand.
• The Tinton formation is a massive "olive to evergreen"
green glauconitic quartz sand which is locally clay-rich
and silty.
• The Vincentown Formation is slightly glauconitic quartz
sand and silt. In places the Vincentown is very
fossiliferous consisting of a bryozoan bioherm.
• SAND, SAND, and more Sand….

Surface Geology Map
Historic Fill Map
Surface Geology and Historic Fill
• Alluvium is sediment that has carried by and deposited
from running water.
• Historic fill is non-indigenous material placed on a site
in order to raise the topographic elevation of the site.
Watersheds

Watersheds
• Three distinct subwatersheds of the Shrewsbury River
• Ridge line runs through Borough.
• Depth of the Shrewsbury River is from 4 to 15 feet.
• Three sides of Borough is Water.
• Ongoing water quality study by Waterwatch
Committee to determine impact of Monmouth Park
Land Use

Forest Type

Land Use and Forest Type
• A GPS unit identified approximately 20 trees at the
Community Center Park
• Three sections left of undeveloped wooded wetlands.
• NJDEP encourages municipalities to develop
Community Forest Management Plans
• Community Forest Plan is an essential guide to
successfully achieving a healthy, economically efficient,
and safe community forest.
• Trees provide shade, cleaner air, and help to manage
storm water.
Habitats

Habitats
• The shore line is the habitat to terns, heron, and egrets.
• There are suitable nesting places for Bald Eagles and
Osprey along the shore and in the wooded wetlands. •
Sighting of a juvenile Bald Eagle at Seven Bridges
• The community has had Black Bear and Fox sightings.

• Islands in the River have nesting grounds for horseshoe
crabs and Diamond Back Terrapins
• Some deer, rabbits, and snapping turtles
Proposed Projects
Proposed Projects
• A Community Forest Management Plan
• Outdoor Classroom at Blackberry Bay
• Osprey Nesting Platform
• Rain Garden at Middle School
• New sidewalks for safe passage from residential area to
“Downtown” with Pizza Parlor and Convenience Store
• Encourage exploration of natural resources and safe
bicycle traffic through borough.
References
http://www.anjec.org/pdfs/EnvironmentalResource.pdf
http://www.oceanportboro.com/
http://geology.rutgers.edu/research/rutgers-core-repository/nj-
coastalplain/hornerstown-formation
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/coastalplain/cretaceous.htm
http://geology.about.com/od/geoprocesses/ig/mechweathering/alluvium.htm
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/geodata/dgs04-7md.htm
http://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/forest/community/grants-gcg.html

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GIS Application:

Environmental Resources Inventory

Case Study: Borough of Oceanport

Prepared: by Ako Omer

Environmental Resource Inventory

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

Environmental Resource Inventory

• This project confirmed that NJDEP and Monmouth County GIS

• The project prepared the following GIS documents:

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

• SAND, SAND, and more Sand….

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

• The community has had Black Bear and Fox sightings.

Kathleen Devine - Spring 2012

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