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This site was created to share some historical photos of the drought of 1980 in the Jersey City Reservoir in Boonton, New Jersey. Click on any photo to enlarge and
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Looking toward the mouth of the reservoir from the Boonton Side	Standing under the bridge looking up the mouth, Rt 287 in background	Looking at the dam.
Looking toward the mouth of the reservoir from the Boonton Side	The mouth was reduced to a stream.	What is at the bottom of the reservoir, someone dumped a safe over the side of the bridge.
Looking toward the mouth of the reservoir from the Boonton Side	The mouth was reduced to a stream.	What is at the bottom of the reservoir, someone threw a parking meter off the bridge.
Standing near the start of the mouth looking at the bridge.	Standing near the start of the mouth looking at the bridge.	Bridge support, color adjusted from original photograph to help correct overexposure.
Standing near the front of the mouth	Under the bridge	The infamous island.
Looking at the dam.	The story of the rocks 65 and 80. Rocks were moved/arranged to depict the years 1965 and 1980 at the waterline during the drought. My friend went down in 1980 and saw the rocks from 1965 and they built they rock sign below that one. Phgoto from USGS.	Click here to see other USGS Photos, provided by the United States Geological Society.

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I was just a kid when my Dad and I took these photos, it was incredible to see how low the reservoir became.

I guess I was always lured to the stories of finding the old remains of Boonton, before the Town was moved to higher land. Needless to saw the myths were put to rest as we never observed any structure based on the level in the reservoir at the time. Who knows what lurks below the rest?

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