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Size
& Location: The Millstone WMA is 285 square
miles.
Located
in Central New Jersey, the WMA is surrounded by the North & South
Branch to the northwest, the Lower Raritan to the east, the Barnegat Bay
watersheds and the Crosswick Creek to the south and the Central Delaware
Tributaries to the southwest.
Major Waterways:
Millstone River, Stony Brook, Beden
Brook, Cranbury Brook, Devil's Brook
Major Highways:
The New Jersey Turnpike, US Highways 1, 130 & 206, State
Routes 27 & 33
Counties:
Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset
List
of
Municipalities
Open
Space Areas: Sourland Mountains, Delaware & Raritan Canal,
Princeton Battlefield
Land Use Percentages in 1995:
Agriculture - 24.5%
Barren Land - 1.6%
Forest - 22.0%
Urban - 31.0%
Water - 1.1%
Wetland - 19.9%
Source:
NJDEP,
Office of Information Resources Management, Bureau of Geographic and
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