place

Boonton Formation

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North AmericaGeologic formations of New JerseyHettangian StageIchnofossiliferous formationsJurassic geology of New Jersey
Mudstone formationsPaleontology in New JerseySandstone formations of the United StatesSiltstone formationsSinemurian Stage
NewarkBasin BoontonFormation
NewarkBasin BoontonFormation

The Boonton Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in New Jersey, formerly divided between the Boonton and Whitehall beds of the defunct Brunswick Formation. It is named for the town of Boonton, New Jersey, which is near where its type section was described by paleontologist Paul E. Olsen.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Boonton Formation (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Boonton Formation
Brookwood Lane,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Boonton FormationContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 40.9 ° E -74.4 °
placeShow on map

Address

Brookwood Lane 99
07005
New Jersey, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

NewarkBasin BoontonFormation
NewarkBasin BoontonFormation
Share experience

Nearby Places

Boonton Public Schools

The Boonton Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Boonton, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of three schools, had an enrollment of 1,457 students and 132.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1.The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.The district's high school serves students from Boonton and also those from Lincoln Park, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lincoln Park Public Schools, with Lincoln Park students accounting for a majority of students at the high school. The two districts have sought to sever the more-than-50-year-old relationship, citing cost savings that could be achieved by both districts and complaints by Lincoln Park that it is granted only one seat on the Boonton Public Schools' Board of Education, less than the number of seats that would be allocated based on the percentage of students of population. In April 2006, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education rejected the request.

Boonton Reservoir

The Boonton Reservoir is a 700-acre reservoir located between Boonton and Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. Boonton, along with nearby Splitrock Reservoir, provides water for Jersey City, New Jersey. It was formed by the construction of a dam on the Rockaway River completed in 1904 on the site of the original town of Boonton. On September 26, 1908, the reservoir’s waters were the first municipal water supply in the United States to be continuously chlorinated. The chlorination system was devised by John L. Leal and the facility was designed by George W. Fuller.In June 2014, Jersey City installed a new $5.8 million gravity pipeline that brings water from the reservoir to the on site treatment facility. The new pipeline is more energy efficient and is expected to save the City $375,000 annually in electricity costs. It replaced the former pipeline which pumped water uphill to the treatment facility and was more energy intensive.On September 28, 2018, officials from Jersey City and the Morris County Park Commission announced a plan to create a nature preserve and 7.7-mile (12.4 km) educational-hiking trail around the reservoir that will allow for passive recreation while protecting the water supply with additional security measures. Phase 1 of the trail is expected to be completed by 2021.In March 2019, a body was found floating in the reservoir, eventually identified as Boonton resident Sean Stohl who had been reported missing since November 2018. On August 23, 2020 the body of a 35-year female who was recovered by dive teams and a state police chopper.