The eroded banks of the Passaic River in Newark, NJ.

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The eroded banks of the Passaic River in Newark, NJ.

For over a century, the banks of the Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey have been abandoned because the shoreline was eroding and the river was filled with trash and contamination.

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