query: what is the drinking age in new jersey

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey their own children in a private location (such as a private home). New Jersey and all other U.S. states comport with the requirement of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which sought to set a national standard of 21 as the minimum age for purchasing and publicly possessing alcoholic beverages. To make states comply, Congress tied a state's failure to enact a drinking age at 21 to a punitive decrease in a state's apportionment of federal highway funding. Federal law requires colleges and universities that accept federal financial aid institute policies to sanction students who violate underage drinking

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey underage person could possibly be prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor Furthermore, arrests and criminal prosecutions for underage drinking in bars or public areas were very uncommon before the 1980s. New Jersey's drinking age was lowered to 18 in 1973 as part of a broader legal change which reduced New Jersey's age of majority from 21 to 18. Much of the impetus for lowering the drinking age to 18 was to grant returning Vietnam veterans the right to purchase alcohol. Possibly because of concerns about 18-year-old high school students being able to legally purchase liquor, and then

pos: Driver's licenses in the United States by the Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization for the use of photo ID age verification in conjunction with increasing the drinking age to 21 in order to reduce underage drinking led to photographs being added to all state licenses. New York and Tennessee were the last states to add photos in 1986. However, New Jersey later allowed drivers to get non-photo licenses; this was later revoked. Vermont license holders have the option of receiving a non-photo license. All Tennessee drivers aged 60 years of age or older had the option of a non-photo driver's license prior to January 2013, when

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey illegally consume it school, the state raised the drinking age to 19 in 1980. Citing statistics that indicated an increase in car deaths among drivers under 21, the drinking age was raised back to 21 in 1983. At the same time, the penalties for underage drinking were increased to include a mandatory driver's license suspension. In 1985, the state made it illegal for an adult to give alcohol to a person under 21, with exception for religious services and parents serving alcohol to their own children at home or in a private area. Historically, a few municipalities had ordinances against

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey 1939, it became a criminal offense to sell alcohol to a person under 21, and for a person under 21 to purchase or consume alcohol in a licensed establishment. The state criminalized the underage possession of alcohol in motor vehicles and other public areas in 1957, possibly in response to young New Jerseyans traveling to New York, where the drinking age was 18, and returning home with liquor. For many years laws against underage drinking and the serving of alcohol to minors did not apply on private property, though an adult who supplied a substantial amount of liquor to an

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey events such as "teen nights," or "18 to party, 21 to drink," some municipalities impose restrictions. It is legal for a person under 21 to be in a location where underage drinking is occurring, and New Jersey does not have an "internal possession" statute criminalizing underage drinking after the fact. The state underage drinking statute is a disorderly persons offense (misdemeanor), which upon conviction is punishable by up to 6 months in jail (rarely imposed), a $500–$1000 fine, and a mandatory 6-month suspension of the person's driver's license. The penalties are the same for using fake identification. Those who unlawfully

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey serve alcohol to an underage person, entice an underage person to drink, knowingly permit underage drinking on their property, or bring alcohol onto a public school property face similar sanctions, except that their driver's license will not be suspended. A licensed business which serves alcohol to a person under age 21, even unintentionally, may be fined or have their liquor license suspended or revoked. Violation of a municipal underage drinking statutes is a non-criminal offense, which has a fine of $250 for the first offense, and $350 for subsequent offenses. A person's driver's license can be suspended for a municipal

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey one year. The first drinking age law in New Jersey was passed in 1846. It allowed the parents of a student under 21 to sue for up to $10 ($ in modern dollars) in damages against a tavern keeper or shopkeeper who supplied alcoholic beverages to their children. In 1880, a criminal statute was enacted, fining businesses that sold liquor to people under 18 if their parents had told the establishment not to sell to their child. The law was amended in 1888 to eliminate the parental consent provision, thus making it illegal in all cases for a tavern or

pos: Alcohol laws of New York on-premises consumption. Williamson, in Wayne County, bans on-premises sale of beer at race tracks, outdoor athletic fields and sports stadia where admission is charged. In all, there are 39 partially dry towns. In response to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984, which reduced by up to 10% the federal highway funding of any state which did not have a minimum purchasing age of 21, the New York Legislature raised the drinking age from 19 to 21, effective December 1, 1985. (The drinking age had been 18 for many years before the first raise on December 4, 1982, to

pos: Mothers Against Drunk Driving organized Mothers Against Drunk Driving and subsequently served as its founding president. A 1983 television movie about Lightner garnered publicity for the group, which grew rapidly. In the early 1980s, the group attracted the attention of the United States Congress. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) did not like the fact that youth in New Jersey could easily travel to New York to purchase alcoholic beverages, circumventing New Jersey's law restricting consumption to those 21 years old and older. The group had its greatest success with the enacting of a 1984 federal law, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, that introduced a

pos: National Minimum Drinking Age Act as his motivations. In 1998, the National Youth Rights Association was founded, in part, to seek to lower the drinking age back to 18. In 2004, the president of Vermont's Middlebury College, John McCardell, Jr. wrote in "The New York Times" that "the 21-year-old drinking age is bad social policy and terrible law" that has made the college drinking problem far worse. Groups that oppose the 21 minimum include Choose Responsibility, the Amethyst Initiative, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Mothers Against Drunk Driving supports the 21 law and has been the main opponent to lowering it back to 18.

pos: Legal drinking age controversy in the United States is already common, but NHTSA spokeswoman Evelyn Avant believes that lowering the drinking age would lead to even more alcohol use among young people. Legal drinking age controversy in the United States The legal drinking age varies from country to country. In the United States, the legal drinking age is currently 21. Other countries have raised the prices of alcohol and encouraged the general public to drink less. Having a legal drinking age of 21 allows for the hope that drinking would become less reckless and the people drinking would be more mature to make reasonable decisions when it comes

pos: John DiMaio Peterson defeated Democratic candidates William Courtney and Tammeisha Smith in the general election. DiMaio currently serves on the Assembly Appropriations Committee, Assembly Budget Committee, Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee and the Joint Legislative Task Force on Drinking Water Infrastructure. Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 23rd District for the 2014–2015 Legislative Session are: John DiMaio John DiMaio (born November 27, 1955) is an American Republican Party politician, who was selected on February 21,

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey person only needs to be 18 to own a liquor license, or to sell or serve alcohol (for example, a waiter). State law also prohibits an underage person from misrepresenting their age in a licensed establishment. It is illegal to serve alcohol to anyone under 21, encourage an underage person to drink, knowingly allow underage drinking on property that one owns or leases, or possess alcoholic beverages on public school property without written consent of the school board or school principal. State law grants an exemption for religious services, and for parents and guardians over 21 who serve alcohol to

pos: Alcohol laws of New Jersey allowed to serve alcohol to people who are under 21 or intoxicated, are strictly liable for patron's behavior, and are subject to dram shop lawsuits for injuries stemming from negligence in serving alcohol. Casinos are permitted to give away "comp" drinks, and many do to reward and encourage gambling. Except on New Year's Eve, a casino cannot sell an unlimited amount of alcoholic beverages at a set price, nor may they require patrons to purchase alcoholic beverages in order to access an event or service. In 1983, because of difficulties in preventing underage drinking in casinos, the legal age to

pos: LGBT rights in New Jersey LGBT rights in New Jersey Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in New Jersey have the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexuals. LGBT persons in New Jersey enjoy strong protections from discrimination, and have had the right to marry since October 21, 2013. Since the late 1960s, state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBT people has become increasingly less acceptable. A series of court decisions have enlarged the areas of LGBT rights. LGBT people were allowed to gather in drinking establishments in 1967 and allowed to have intimate relationships in 1978. Anti-gay adoption policies by New Jersey's state welfare agency were dropped

pos: Danny Kass Danny Kass Daniel "Danny" Kass (born September 21, 1982) is an American professional snowboarder who has competed at the Olympic level. Kass was born in Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey. He grew up in New Jersey where he began snowboarding at the age of twelve. His home slopes are what are now known as Hidden Valley and Mountain Creek ski resorts both located in the mountains of Vernon Township and Highland Lakes. After several years of shredding around the Mid-Atlantic States, Kass entered into the Okemo Mountain School to focus more of his time on riding some

pos: David J. Hanson describes these groups as “neo-prohibitionist.” Hanson criticizes what he calls the "temperance mentality" of many groups and claims that "their tactic is to establish cultural rather than strictly legal prohibition by making alcohol beverages less socially acceptable and marginalizing those who drink, no matter how moderately." A critic of the 21-year age limit on legal drinking in the United States, he supports the acceptance of drinking learner permits for adults under the age of 21, analogous to driving learner permits. Hanson has published books and over 300 other publications on alcohol and maintains three websites on the subject, none of

pos: Legal drinking age controversy in the United States Legal drinking age controversy in the United States The legal drinking age varies from country to country. In the United States, the legal drinking age is currently 21. Other countries have raised the prices of alcohol and encouraged the general public to drink less. Having a legal drinking age of 21 allows for the hope that drinking would become less reckless and the people drinking would be more mature to make reasonable decisions when it comes to alcohol consumption. A survey of Australian college students demonstrated that they and other students witnessed blackouts during parties with alcohol consumption and around

pos: Alcohol law in 1984, which tied federal highway funds to states' maintaining a minimum drinking age of 21. Despite a rekindled national debate in 2008 on the established drinking age (initiated by several university presidents), a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found in September 2008 that 76% of New Jerseyans supported leaving the legal drinking age at 21 years. No significant differences emerged when considering gender, political affiliation, or region. However, parents of younger children were more likely to support keeping the age at 21 (83%) than parents of college-age students (67%). Seventeen states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi,

pos: River Dell Regional High School basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 9 students (0.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (0.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. President Ronald Reagan spoke at the high school in June 1984, where he advocated on behalf of a drinking age of 21 as a minimum standard. During the 1997–98 school year, River Dell High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. The school was the 31st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out

neg: Alcohol laws of New Jersey cannot suspend a driver's license, but may notify the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission of a DUI conviction. In federal enclaves that are under the jurisdiction of other federal departments (e.g. Fish and Wildlife Service), it is unclear if drunk driving could be prosecuted since the Assimilative Crimes Act is inapplicable, and there is no federal law defining DUI on those properties. Under federal law, the drinking age for the Armed Forces is the same as the state or nation where the military base is located, or the drinking age of a state or nation within 50 miles of the

neg: Drinking water quality legislation of the United States places—especially young children, the elderly, or people of any age with autoimmune deficiencies—may suffer serious health complications as a long-term result of drinking water from their own taps. Some state and local governments have issued rules to protect users of private wells. Timeline of existing federal water and state drinking water quality regulations: New Jersey enacted its own Safe Drinking Water Act in 1977. That statute is closely modeled on the federal act. The Department of Environmental Protection administers the NJSDWA and its related regulations in the state administrative code. Public Health Law Section 225 gives the public health council

neg: Verona High School (New Jersey) free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The school mascot is the Verona Hillbilly, which was originally created in the 1950s and pictured with a bottle of moonshine and a shotgun. The mascot later was redesigned with a dog and a fishing pole due to concerns of school violence and under-age drinking. Verona High School won the New Jersey Star School Award for the 1995–96 school year. The school won the New Jersey Best Practice Award in the 1995–96 school year for Citizenship / Tolerance in recognition of its program in Prejudice Reduction. In the 1997–98 school year, it

neg: Mina Van Winkle Bureau of Associated Charities. During their marriage, she engaged in social work on a volunteer basis. Her husband died on September 30, 1915, at age 76. She resided in Newark, New Jersey, until approximately 1917. In 1908, Van Winkle organized the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women of New Jersey, which in 1912 was renamed the Women's Political Union of New Jersey. She was the head of New Jersey chapter of the Union at the stage when the American suffrage movement clashed with eastern political machines and supporters of lawful drinking fearful that suffrage would lead to prohibition. Her tenure as

neg: Charles T. Epps Jr. criticism for denigrating his constituency in an address to the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Jersey and Vicinity. In his speech, he referred to the young females in his district, as his "worst enemy". He then elaborated, "The young girls are bad. I don't know what they're drinking today, but they're bad." Later, he thanks corporate volunteers for having "signed up to help even the dirty, nasty, bad kids." Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the

neg: Let It Enfold You According to Miller, the atmosphere was "like a constant party ... inviting girls over and .. smoking weed and drinking all night. The record label wanted to strangle us." "Buried a Lie" and "Rum Is for Drinking, Not for Burning" were recorded between October 20 and 22 at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, New York. Evetts mixed the recordings at the Snuff Factory in Helmetta, New Jersey, while Alan Douches mastered them at West West Side Studios. Nielsen said of the recording process: "We killed ourselves over and over trying to say what we wanted, and make the record the best

neg: Richard Biegenwald Richard Biegenwald Richard Fran Biegenwald (August 24, 1940 – March 10, 2008) was an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Between 1958 and 1983, Biegenwald killed at least six people, and he is suspected in at least two other murders. Born in Staten Island, New York, Biegenwald was frequently beaten as a child by his alcoholic father. At the age of five, Biegenwald set fire to their home and was sent for observation at a Rockland County Psychiatric Center. By the age of eight, Biegenwald was drinking and gambling; at age nine he underwent

neg: Alcohol laws of New Jersey a cabin in a federal enclave in New Jersey, a parent can serve alcohol to their child, and an underage person can possess and consume alcohol. Outside of these exceptions, underage drinking and serving alcohol to a minor are federal misdemeanors, punishable by a fine and up to 6 months in jail. There is a five-year statute of limitations for DUI, underage drinking, and other alcohol violations that take place in federal enclaves. Alcohol laws of New Jersey The state laws governing alcoholic drinks in New Jersey are among the most complex in the United States, with many peculiarities not

neg: Sandra Dee a Newark, New Jersey newspaper that she "felt like a has-been that never was." Dee's adult years were marked by poor health, and she became a self-described recluse. She battled anorexia nervosa, depression, and alcoholism for many years. She quit drinking altogether after being diagnosed with kidney failure in 2000, attributed to years of heavy drinking and smoking. Complications from kidney disease led to her death on February 20, 2005, at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 62. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills. Dee's

neg: Richard Biegenwald an interview to the Associated Press. Richard Biegenwald Richard Fran Biegenwald (August 24, 1940 – March 10, 2008) was an American serial killer who committed his crimes in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Between 1958 and 1983, Biegenwald killed at least six people, and he is suspected in at least two other murders. Born in Staten Island, New York, Biegenwald was frequently beaten as a child by his alcoholic father. At the age of five, Biegenwald set fire to their home and was sent for observation at a Rockland County Psychiatric Center. By the age of eight, Biegenwald was drinking and

neg: Billy Ray Bates him a headache for two days, but he also remembers he liked the taste and how it made him feel happy. He was also drinking moonshine by age fourteen. At sixteen, he had tried cigarettes and marijuana but didn't like how they made him cough. Bates was part of advertising campaigns during his stint with the Blazers, one involved sporting a milk moustache. As one of the more popular Blazers, his jersey number (12) was a popular choice of kids in local recreation leagues. Bates's career is an example of what can happen to players unprepared for NBA life in

neg: Maximum Contaminant Level their presence in drinking water. However, EPA recommends maximum levels of these contaminants in drinking water. These recommendations are called "National Secondary Drinking Water Regulations" (NSDWRs), or secondary standards. Some state laws and regulations use the term "maximum contaminant level" to refer to MCLs promulgated within a state pursuant either to the federal SDWA or state law; for example, the "New Jersey Safe Drinking Water Act." In some cases, a state may issue an MCL for a contaminant that has not been regulated by EPA under federal law. For example, in 2018 New Jersey promulgated an MCL for perfluorononanoic acid

neg: Drinking water quality in the United States as of late 2018. EPA began requiring public water systems to monitor for PFOA and PFOS in 2012, and published drinking water health advisories, which are non-regulatory technical documents, in 2016. EPA has not announced whether it will develop a National Primary Drinking Water Regulation for these contaminants. In November 2017 the State of New Jersey announced plans to develop its own drinking water standards for PFOA. New Jersey published a standard for PFNA in September 2018, the first state to do so. The state set the MCL at 13 parts per trillion (ppt). Other states that have issued PFAS

neg: Rowan University the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Control commission (ABC) to the school and began shutting down off-campus parties, and placing undercover agents in the local liquor establishments. This prompted Morton Downey Jr., who was based in Secaucus, New Jersey, and very popular at the time, to do an untelevised show focusing on the drinking age and the classic argument that an eighteen-year-old can go off to war and die for their country, but they cannot legally buy and consume a beer. The following year, the ABC did not return, and the partying atmosphere that Glassboro State College was known for, returned

neg: Perfluorononanoic acid that dominates in most wildlife biomonitoring samples. In the United States there are no federal drinking water standards for PFNA as of late 2018. The State of New Jersey published a drinking water standard for PFNA, the first state to do so, in September 2018. Public water systems in New Jersey will be required to meet a maximum contaminant level standard of 13 parts per trillion (ppt). Perfluorononanoic acid Perfluorononanoic acid, or PFNA, is a synthetic perfluorinated carboxylic acid and fluorosurfactant that is also an environmental contaminant found in people and wildlife along with PFOS and PFOA. In acidic form

neg: Jersey Live were disputed reports of excessive drinking by under-age people. Jersey Telecom renewed their sponsorship agreement of Jersey Live for a fifth year. Main Stage hosted by Mani (Stone Roses/Primal Scream). Around 9,000 people attended in 2009. In 2006, 7,500 people attended the festival. Jersey Live Jersey Live Music Festival (alternatively Jersey Live) was a music festival held annually at The Royal Jersey Showground in the parish of Trinity, Jersey between 2004 and 2016. Tickets for the performance were sold on the Jersey Live official website, and discounted tickets sites such as Viagogo. The brainchild of local promoter Warren Le Sueur,

neg: Wildwood, New Jersey houses in Wildwood and they party and participate in underage drinking. Wildwood was ranked the best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. Wildwood is one of five municipalities in the state that offer free public access to oceanfront beaches monitored by lifeguards, joining Atlantic City, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Upper Township's Strathmere section. Wildwood is home to the New Jersey Firefighter's Convention, held annually every September since the 1970s. Known for its parade featuring fire company apparatus from across the state, it moved from Atlantic City

neg: Raritan River railroad bridge which carries the North Jersey Coast Line; the Victory Bridge which carries Route 35 (connecting Perth Amboy and Sayreville, New Jersey); the Edison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 9 (connecting Woodbridge Township and Sayreville); and the Driscoll Bridge, which carries the Garden State Parkway (connecting Woodbridge Township and Sayreville). The Raritan River is an important source of drinking water for the central portion of New Jersey. Two water purification plants, operated by New Jersey American Water, are located where the Raritan River and its largest tributary (the Millstone River) meet just east of Manville, New Jersey. At times

neg: Wallace L. Minto Wallace L. Minto Wallace L. Minto (August 6, 1921, in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States – September 3, 1983) had a passion for science at a very young age. For instance, at age 13, he and his father, Wallace Milton Minto, stock piled more than 50 tons of uranium rich ore in Sparta, NJ. He was also the first to split the uranium atom while still a teenager. This nearly created an atomic explosion in his family home. At age 16, Wallace synthesized radium and invented what is now known as "Scotchlite". He had a copyright on his own

neg: John V. Kelly a Wonderful Life". Kelly died at age 83 on October 30, 2009, in what was described as "a most peaceful manner" at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, as well as by two daughters, two sons and 11 grandchildren. John V. Kelly John Vincent Kelly, Sr. (July 11, 1926 – October 30, 2009) was an American Republican Party politician who served as Mayor of Nutley, New Jersey and served nine terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, before losing two electoral bids to win a seat in the New Jersey Senate.

neg: Chlorine employed in wound irrigation in modern times, where it remains effective against bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics (see Century Pharmaceuticals). The first continuous application of chlorination to drinking U.S. water was installed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1908. By 1918, the US Department of Treasury called for all drinking water to be disinfected with chlorine. Chlorine is presently an important chemical for water purification (such as in water treatment plants), in disinfectants, and in bleach. Even small water supplies are now routinely chlorinated. Chlorine is usually used (in the form of hypochlorous acid) to kill bacteria and

neg: John L. Leal John L. Leal John Laing Leal (May 5, 1858 – March 13, 1914) was a physician and water treatment expert who, in 1908, was responsible for conceiving and implementing the first disinfection of a U.S. drinking water supply using chlorine. He was one of the principal expert witnesses at two trials which examined the quality of the water supply in Jersey City, New Jersey, and which evaluated the safety and utility of chlorine for production of "pure and wholesome" drinking water. The second trial verdict approved the use of chlorine to disinfect drinking water which led to an explosion of

neg: In Our Water a nearby landfill and seek to get government to acknowledge and fix the problem. Their attempts to contact local and then the state Department of Environmental Protection are rebuffed. Mr. Kaler eventually goes to Washington DC to testify at Congressional hearings. The film follows the 5-year radicalization of Kaler as he realizes what is happening to groundwater and why. In Our Water In Our Water is a 1982 American documentary film directed by Meg Switzgable, about a family in South Brunswick, New Jersey, who discover their drinking water is contaminated by a nearby landfill. It was nominated for an Academy

neg: Pine Barrens (New Jersey) McPhee's 1967 book "The Pine Barrens" focuses on the history and ecology of the region. Between 170–200 million years ago, the Atlantic coastal plain began to form. The Barrens formed in the southernmost, and last, area to be formed in New Jersey, 1.8 to 65 mya, the Tertiary era. Over millions of years, the rising and falling of the coastline deposited minerals underground, culminating with the end of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago, when plants and trees began growing in what is now New Jersey. Forest fires have been a common occurrence before habitation by humans. Fire

neg: Alcohol laws of New Jersey underage drinking conviction, but usually it just results in a fine without a court appearance being required. There is a "good samaritan" defense to an underage drinking charge – if an underage drinker calls for medical help for another underage drinker who is ill, and cooperates with law enforcement and medical responders, neither may be prosecuted. It is common for a state underage drinking charge to be downgraded to a municipal ordinance violation in order for the defendant to avoid a criminal record and a suspended license. The statute of limitations for both state and municipal underage drinking charges is

neg: Glendola Reservoir Glendola Reservoir The Glendola Reservoir is a reservoir in the Glendola section of Wall Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was built in 1965. The water from the Glendola Reservoir is pumped to the Swimming River Reservoir where it is treated. The Glendola Reservoir is managed by New Jersey American Water Company and provides drinking water for residents of Monmouth County. There are two possible sources for the Glendola Reservoir, the Shark River and Manasquan River, the selection of source is controlled by the New Jersey American Water company as neither river flows into the reservoir and all water

neg: James Brady (criminal) fine. Brady was, above all, known in the underworld as a charismatic "natural-born leader" and enjoyed a loyal following. In May 1903, Brady left New York apparently "disgusted" with what he viewed as continual police harassment and stayed in New Jersey for the following two months. He returned to New York on July 4 and celebrated Independence Day by drinking with several of his friends on James Street. During the festivities, local longshoreman George Stewart kicked a can "full of mixed ale" from Brady's hands as a practical joke. A fight then occurred between the two men and eventually led

neg: Noah Raby listed as 28 years old in the 1850 census, born in North Carolina and living in New Jersey. Noah Raby Noah Raby (April 1, 1772 or 1822 – March 1, 1904) was an American notable for his longevity claim of the early 20th century. He supposedly lived to be 131. He claimed not just a remarkable age, but also a historical deed (fought in the War of 1812). Even before his death, Noah Raby's age claim was noted with some skepticism: Noah Raby, also a pauper, an inmate of the almshouse at Piscatawa,[sic] near New Brunswick, New Jersey, celebrated what

neg: Transport in Jersey passengers inside a vehicle must wear a seat belt at all times, regardless of whether they are sitting in the front or the rear. The penalties for drinking and driving in Jersey are up to £2,000 fine or 6 months in prison for the first offence plus unlimited disqualification of driving licence. It is an offence to drive whilst under the influence of drugs. Since July 2014 it has also been illegal to smoke in any vehicle carrying passengers under the age of 18. Single yellow lines indicate that parking is prohibited and is liable to a fine. Paycards are

neg: Arielle Holmes Arielle Holmes Arielle Holmes (born September 17, 1993) is an American actress and writer best known for starring as a lightly fictionalized version of herself in the film "Heaven Knows What". Holmes is from Bayonne, New Jersey. Her father is an Irish national and was not part of her upbringing. She was raised mostly by relatives in New Jersey. Holmes' first experience with crack cocaine was when she smoked with her mother at the age of 12. She dropped out of school in the 10th grade. After leaving school, she moved to New York City to live with her boyfriend

neg: Tuck Everlasting (musical) the book, eleven years old in the musical, who is tired of her family and is thinking of running away from her rural hometown of Treegap. One day, while in a wooded area her family owns, she sees a boy about the age of 17 drinking from a spring. He tells her that his name is Jesse Tuck, and forbids her from drinking the water. Soon after, his brother, Miles, and mother, Mae, take her away with them and explain what is happening and why they did what they did. All the while, they are being pursued by a man

neg: Orange Valley Regional Groundwater Superfund site list. This site was originally several public wells filled with groundwater that gave public drinking water to the town of West Orange, New Jersey, and Orange, New Jersey, in Essex County. West Orange is a town in Essex County, New Jersey, and is surrounded by the towns of Orange, Montclair, Maplewood, East Orange, Bloomfield, South Orange, Cedar Grove, Livingston, West Caldwell, Millburn, and several others. The town had a mayor-council system of municipal government and, as of 2016, the mayor is Robert Parisi. On Wikipedia, the town population is recorded as “47,249 as of 2016” and has a “2.3% population

neg: Action Park sold beer in many kiosks on the grounds, with similarly relaxed enforcement of the drinking age as with other restrictions in the park. Doctors treating the injured often reported that many of them were intoxicated. Despite many citations for safety violations between 1979 and 1986, including allowing minors to operate some rides and failing to report accidents (which was unique among New Jersey's amusement parks), an investigation by the "New Jersey Herald", Sussex County's main daily newspaper, later found that the park was fined only once. It was also unique in that department in that all other amusement parks were

neg: Effects of Hurricane Floyd in New Jersey New Jersey National Guard delivered nearly 500,000 bottles of water to residents along the Raritan River without clean drinking water. During storm cleanup, a building inspector became ill from Legionnaire's Disease. Volunteer organizations provided assistance to state residents. The American Red Cross served over 143,000 meals to more than 2,400 families. The New Jersey State Bar Association provided pro bono disaster legal service to state residents. Effects of Hurricane Floyd in New Jersey The effects of Hurricane Floyd in New Jersey in 1999 were the costliest natural disaster in state history, until it was surpassed by Hurricane Irene in 2011.

neg: Drinking water supply and sanitation in the United States in five. Clean water is estimated to have reduced about three-fourths of infant mortality, and two-thirds of child mortality. By 1900, sand filtration was widely used. In 1908, the first continuous application of chlorination to drinking U.S. water was in Jersey City, New Jersey (and not without controversy). Cities also began to construct sewers. As a result of water treatment and sanitation, the incidence of cholera and typhoid rapidly decreased. Slow sand filtration was initially the technology of choice for water treatment, later being gradually displaced by rapid sand filtration. In the arid American Southwest, the water demand of rapidly

neg: Pilgrim Pipeline of cancer-causing chemicals and drinking water contamination. According to an activist group, the Pilgrim proposal would intersect with various aquifers and drinking-water sources and risk contamination, including the following: "The Highlands region in NJ ... provides drinking water to more than 4.5 million people in NJ. Pilgrim’s proposal cuts across 3 major drinking water rivers, numerous smaller streams and two EPA designated sole source aquifers (the Ramapo Aquifer and the Buried Valley Aquifer) in New Jersey. In New York it crosses 232 regulated streams" Pollution and environmental destruction concerns. Others fear possible destruction of wetlands, toxic air emissions and soil

neg: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada was in her last year of training to be a nurse. Walter C. Moffett was born on February 17, 1879 in Townsend, Delaware. He began denominational service in 1897, at eighteen years of age, as a colporteur in what was then the Atlantic Conference, which comprised Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. He pastored in Ohio (1905-1907), Pennsylvania, and New York state. He served as Educational Superintendent for Ohio conference (1911), New Jersey Conference (1914). For 25 years he served as president in a variety of conferences: Virginia (1915-1918), New Jersey (1919-, Maine (1922), Massachusetts which merged into the Southern New

neg: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? What Am I Doing in New Jersey? What Am I Doing in New Jersey? is the 12th album and sixth HBO special by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded at the Park Performing Arts Center in Union City, New Jersey for an HBO special and released on August 15, 1988. In a November 17, 1988 interview on "Late Show with David Letterman", Carlin revealed the title was going to be "What in God's Name Am I Doing in New Jersey?" and when about to explain the title change, Letterman asks about Carlin's childhood, a topic which the interview follows

neg: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? from then on. After this HBO special, Carlin started wearing black clothing...a theme he continued until his last one. What Am I Doing in New Jersey? What Am I Doing in New Jersey? is the 12th album and sixth HBO special by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded at the Park Performing Arts Center in Union City, New Jersey for an HBO special and released on August 15, 1988. In a November 17, 1988 interview on "Late Show with David Letterman", Carlin revealed the title was going to be "What in God's Name Am I Doing in New Jersey?"

neg: Buried Valley Aquifer System and the beginning of the Highlands Physiographic Province. The boundary to the south and the east is formed by the Second Watchung Mountain range, including portions of Union, Essex and Somerset Counties, New Jersey." This area includes the following municipalities: Buried Valley Aquifer System The Buried Valley Aquifer System is a buried valley aquifer in the central basin of the Passaic River watershed in New Jersey, as defined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This region impacts drinking water sources for twenty-six municipalities in four northern New Jersey counties: Morris, Union, Essex, and Somerset.

neg: Arsenic and arsenate salts as category 1 carcinogens. Arsenic is known to cause when present in drinking water, "the most common species being arsenate [; As(V)] and arsenite [HAsO; As(III)]". In the United States since 2006, the maximum concentration in drinking water allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is 10 ppb and the FDA set the same standard in 2005 for bottled water. The Department of Environmental Protection for New Jersey set a drinking water limit of 5 ppb in 2006. The IDLH (immediately dangerous to life and health) value for arsenic metal and inorganic arsenic compounds is 5 mg/m

neg: George C. Whipple was unlikely that “poisonous chemicals” would be added to drinking water to kill bacteria, that some consideration of chemical disinfection might be given in the future. After his presentation, the audience verbally attacked him for even suggesting that chemicals be used for drinking water disinfection. Neither sanitary engineers nor the public at large were ready for chemical disinfection. In 1899, Jersey City, New Jersey contracted for the construction of a new water supply on the Rockaway River, which was 23 miles west of the City. The water supply included a dam, reservoir and 23-mile pipeline and was completed on May

neg: Manasquan Reservoir reservoirs provide a large portion of the drinking water for Central New Jersey. The reservoir is operated by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority and became operational in 1990. The reservoir was created by damming the Timber Swamp Brook. Several portions of wetland were destroyed in the making of the reservoir. By New Jersey state law, for all wetland destroyed by mankind, additional equivalent amounts of wetlands must be recreated artificially in the immediacy of the destroyed wetland. The reservoir has a four billion gallon capacity and a maximum depth of . It can supply up to of water per

neg: Jersey City Reservoir No. 3 Jersey City Reservoir No. 3 Jersey City Reservoir No. 3 is a decommissioned reservoir atop Bergen Hill in the Heights of Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, situated on approximately just south of Pershing Field. It was built between 1871 and 1874 as part of the city's waterworks system designed to provide potable water to the city, including Ellis Island. Its perimeter wall is in the Egyptian Revival style and pump stations are in the Romanesque Revival style. The reservoir provided drinking water until the 1980s, when it was drained and abandoned for a larger reservoir at the

neg: How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life what literally had happened, considering so much of "Born Confused" is drawn from my life (and home): The alcohol cabinet in my non-drinking household in small town Massachusetts was now in Opal's, the details of my family's two dinnertimes because of all the years of working late into the night by my father, too; my mother's food, from her mother's recipes, transplanted to Opal's table, her slinky black outfit too; my ecstatic and eye-opening discovery of Jackson Heights, Queens during an enthralled and emotional day there many years ago, suddenly turned to Edison, New Jersey ... Did [Viswanathan and/or Alloy]

neg: Stephen Crane "wasted face was enough to tell me that it was the most forlorn of all hopes." On May 28, the couple arrived at Badenweiler, Germany, a health spa on the edge of the Black Forest. Despite his weakened condition, Crane continued to dictate fragmentary episodes for the completion of "The O'Ruddy". He died on June 5, 1900, at the age of 28. In his will he left everything to Taylor, who took his body to New Jersey for burial. Crane was interred in Evergreen Cemetery in what is now Hillside, New Jersey. Stephen Crane's fiction is typically categorized as representative

neg: Karl Guthe Jansky refers to high frequency static disturbances of cosmic origin. Jansky was a resident of Little Silver, New Jersey, and died at age 44 in a Red Bank, New Jersey, hospital (now called Riverview Medical Center) due to a heart condition. Asteroid 1932 Jansky is named after him. Karl Guthe Jansky Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in August 1931 first discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. He is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy. Karl Guthe Jansky was born in what was then

neg: Pinelands National Reserve provide public recreation facilities. Established by Congress in 1978, it is the nation's first national reserve. Between 170–200 million years ago, the Atlantic coastal plain began to form. Over millions of years, the rising and falling of the coastline deposited minerals underground, culminating with the end of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago, when plants and trees began growing in what is now New Jersey. Around 10,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Lenape people first inhabited the Pine Barrens. During the 17th century, the area that is now New Jersey was explored and settled by the Swedish

neg: Ebenezer Doan young age to his elder brother Jonathan, a prominent Master Builder in the mid-Atlantic states, he having built and designed the first New Jersey State House (1791-2) and the New Jersey State Prison (1797–99). After a short, tragic first marriage, Ebenezer Doan married Elizabeth Paxon in 1801; they had six children. In 1808, the extended Doan clan moved to the new Quaker settlement on Yonge Street in what is now Newmarket, Ontario. In 1813, most members of the family, including Ebenezer and Elizabeth, joined the Children of Peace, led by another Yonge Street Quaker, David Willson. Ebenezer's fame as a

neg: Hippolyte Aucouturier the first stage, with stomach cramp said to be brought on by drinking too much. Nobody now knows if this means what it says, perhaps from unclean water, or if referred to drinking wine and sniffing ether, both aimed at numbing the pain of long days riding on bad roads with little food. The previous year he had had typhoid fever and he may not have recovered. The historian Pierre Chany, wrote: The big athlete in his blue and red jersey collapsed on a chair. He was crying and tears ran down the pink creases in his dusty face. "I've

neg: R. Norris Shreve department. Lamar and Shreve left Mallinckrodt and St. Louis in 1911 for northern New Jersey, where Lamar founded Lamar Chemical Works, which Shreve soon took over. At age 29, he founded Shreve Chemical Company, before becoming a chemical engineering consultant in 1919. In 1923 Shreve became the chief stockholder and president of Ammonite Company, which was then based at the Nixon Nitration Works in what is now Edison, New Jersey. On March 1, 1924, Ammonite, which was involved in extracting ammonium nitrate from shells from the Raritan Arsenal, triggered a massive explosion and resulting fire (known as the 1924 Nixon

neg: 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey tornado 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey tornado The 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey, tornado of Friday, June 19, 1835, was the deadliest recorded in New Jersey history. It struck what is now part of downtown New Brunswick, along a path that stretched through or near what is now Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital property, rambled towards the site of Monument Square, and went downhill to the river from there, after wreaking havoc on George Street. The twister then destroyed all but two of the twelve houses in Piscataway, New Jersey. On June 20, 1835, the "New York Evening Star" reported: "About

neg: William Paterson (judge) Paterson was born December 24, 1745, in County Antrim, now in Northern Ireland, to Richard Paterson. Paterson moved to what is now the United States at age two. At 14, he began college at Princeton. After graduating, he studied law with the prominent lawyer Richard Stockton and was admitted to the bar in 1768. He also stayed connected to his "alma mater" and helped found the Cliosophic Society with Aaron Burr. Paterson was selected as the Somerset County delegate for the first three provincial congresses of New Jersey, where, as secretary, he recorded the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution. After

neg: 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey tornado in the street, and a boy named Bayard." 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey tornado The 1835 New Brunswick, New Jersey, tornado of Friday, June 19, 1835, was the deadliest recorded in New Jersey history. It struck what is now part of downtown New Brunswick, along a path that stretched through or near what is now Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital property, rambled towards the site of Monument Square, and went downhill to the river from there, after wreaking havoc on George Street. The twister then destroyed all but two of the twelve houses in Piscataway, New Jersey. On June 20,

neg: Charles Cullen in West Orange, New Jersey, and was the youngest of eight children. His father, a bus driver, was 58 years old at the time of Cullen's birth and died when he was seven months old. At age nine, Cullen, who has described his childhood as miserable, made the first of many suicide attempts by drinking chemicals from a chemistry set. Later, working as a nurse, Cullen claimed to have fantasized about stealing drugs from the hospital where he worked and using them to end his life. In 1977, Cullen's mother died in a car accident. The following year, he dropped

neg: Epidemiology of binge drinking has led to a review of liquor advertising being announced by the New Zealand government in January 2006. The review considered regulation of sport sponsorship by liquor companies, which at present is commonplace. Previously the drinking age in New Zealand was 20, then dropped to 18 in 1999. In direct conjunction with the age-lowering, the Police were found to strictly enforce the on-license (bar, restaurant) code for underage-drinking, less so for the off-licences (liquor stores, supermarkets). As a result, young people ages 15–17 found it significantly "harder" to get into (or be served at) bars and restaurants than it was

neg: Perfluorooctanoic acid health advisories and health effects support documents assist federal, state, tribal, and local officials and managers of drinking water systems in protecting public health when these chemicals are present in drinking water. The levels of PFOS and PFOA concentrations under which adverse health effects are not anticipated to occur over a lifetime of exposure are 0.07 ppb (70 ppt). EPA has not announced whether it will develop a National Primary Drinking Water Regulation for these contaminants. In November 2017 the State of New Jersey announced plans to develop its own drinking water standards for PFOA and PFNA. In 2018 the

neg: Perfluorooctanoic acid Administration research regarding food contact papers as a potential source of PFOA to humans is ongoing. In November 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data on PFOA concentrations comparing 1999–2000 vs. 2003–2004 NHANES samples. On January 15, 2009, EPA set a provisional health advisory level of 0.4 ppb in drinking water. On May 19, 2016, EPA lowered the drinking water health advisory level to 0.07 ppb for PFOA and PFOS. In 2007, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) issued a preliminary health-based guidance level of 0.04 ppb in drinking water, due to PFOA being

neg: Millstone River to upstate New York, and thence to Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other Great Lakes States upstream of Niagara Falls. Millstone River The Millstone River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. The Millstone River begins in western Monmouth County and flows northward through southern Somerset County into the Raritan River at Manville. Almost three quarters of its length is paralleled by the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Both the Millstone River and parallel canal provide drinking water to portions of central New Jersey and provide recreational uses as well. The Millstone River starts

neg: National Minimum Drinking Age Act drinking as a reason to institute a lower drinking age, which would provide the opportunity to help "young people learn to make healthy and responsible choices". Social environmental theories are also cited; making alcohol a forbidden fruit may encourage more dangerous drinking than would occur if the drinking age were lowered. With a lower drinking age, young people would have access to "publicly moderated drinking environments", rather than "model their behavior after the excessive consumption typical of private student parties", though the perception of excessive drinking on college campuses is often overstated. When brewing magnate Pete Coors raised the drinking

neg: Historic sites in Cranford, New Jersey directly behind what is now the parking lot of Union County College's main building). Two Works Progress Administration workers digging an artificial lake in Lenape located the bones. The bones discovered are believed to have belonged to a young male that lived 12,000 years ago and probably washed down from farther north. They are the only known Ice Age mastodon specimens found in Union County, New Jersey. Certain Native Americans lived most of the year in the Delaware Valley, and came to the coast only at certain seasons to hunt and fish. The Great Minisink Trail was a path for

neg: George W. Fuller Jersey. The plant was a milestone in public health protection because it incorporated all of Fuller's findings from his research over the previous 10 years and it became the model for the design of subsequent drinking water filtration facilities. On June 19, 1908, Fuller was hired by John L. Leal to design and build a chlorination system for the Jersey City, New Jersey water supply at Boonton Reservoir on the Rockaway River. Given an impossible deadline as a result of a New Jersey Chancery Court order, Fuller successfully completed the chlorination system in 99 days. John L. Leal developed the

neg: John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) At public auction, he bought from the state of New Jersey a piece of land which had been confiscated from a Tory landowner. The land, described as "William Bayard's farm at Hoebuck" comprised approximately what is now the city of Hoboken. Stevens built his estate at Castle Point, on land that would later become the site of Stevens Institute of Technology (bequeathed by his son Edwin Augustus Stevens). In 1776, at age 27, he was appointed a Captain in Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War. During the War, he was promoted to Colonel and became Treasurer of New Jersey,

neg: Glendola Reservoir must be pumped to the basin. This Reservoir is completely restricted to any public activity. Glendola Reservoir The Glendola Reservoir is a reservoir in the Glendola section of Wall Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was built in 1965. The water from the Glendola Reservoir is pumped to the Swimming River Reservoir where it is treated. The Glendola Reservoir is managed by New Jersey American Water Company and provides drinking water for residents of Monmouth County. There are two possible sources for the Glendola Reservoir, the Shark River and Manasquan River, the selection of source is controlled by the

neg: History of water supply and sanitation the Rockaway River), which served as the supply for Jersey City, New Jersey. Chlorination was achieved by controlled additions of dilute solutions of chloride of lime (calcium hypochlorite) at doses of 0.2 to 0.35 ppm. The treatment process was conceived by Dr. John L. Leal and the chlorination plant was designed by George Warren Fuller. Over the next few years, chlorine disinfection using chloride of lime were rapidly installed in drinking water systems around the world. The technique of purification of drinking water by use of compressed liquefied chlorine gas was developed by a British officer in the Indian Medical

neg: George C. Whipple was judged capable of supplying Jersey City with water that was "pure and wholesome." Despite his opposition to chlorination of the Jersey City water supply, Whipple recommended the addition of chloride of lime before the slow sand filters at Poughkeepsie, New York. His recommendation was quickly adopted on March 17, 1909, which made the Poughkeepsie water supply the third U.S. drinking water source to receive continuous disinfection by chlorine (after Jersey City [September 26, 1908] and the treatment plant at Little Falls, New Jersey [February 4, 1909]). Whipple’s career took an important turn in 1911 when he was appointed Gordon

neg: Dave Scotti screenplay of "The Right Hook" (co-written with director Luke Greenfield), as well as the making of the film, was published in the book "Short Films" 101 by Frederick Levy (Pedigree Trade, 2004). Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, he started training in martial arts—Tae Kwon Do—at the age of nine, and earned his black belt at fourteen. He began competing in tournaments, winning the ATA Jr National Karate Championship in 1981. In high school he started getting into trouble, drinking and fighting, but a Nun (his English teacher) signed him up for the school play, which, in due course, became

neg: T–V distinction between people, sometimes sealed by drinking a glass of wine together (), today people under the age of about thirty will often mutually adopt automatically in informal situations. A notable example is the Internet: strangers meeting online use the informal forms of address virtually exclusively, regardless of age or status differences. Nevertheless, formal forms of address are alive and well in Hungarian: It is important to keep in mind that formal conjugation doesn't automatically imply politeness or vice versa; these factors are independent of each other. For example, "What would you like to have?" (literally, "What do you command?") is

neg: Oradell Reservoir United Water New Jersey, a unit of United Water, a private utility. It provides drinking water for an estimated 750,000 residents of Bergen and Hudson counties. Oradell Reservoir The Oradell Reservoir is a reservoir formed by the Oradell Reservoir Dam on the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. The Oradell Reservoir Dam is located primarily in the borough of Oradell, but the reservoir also extends across the borders of the nearby boroughs of Haworth, Emerson, Closter, and Harrington Park. The reservoir is fed by the Pascack Brook and Dwars Kill in addition to the Hackensack River. Upstream from

neg: Spent (band) Spent (band) Spent was an American Indie Rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey consisting of singer/guitarist John King, guitarist/singer/keyboardist Annie Hayden, bassist/occasional vocalist Joe Weston and drummer Ed Radich. Spent formed in the early 1990s in Jersey City, New Jersey. After releasing several EPs under various independent labels the band released their first full album. "Songs of Drinking and Rebellion" was released in March 1995 on Merge Records, an indie label formed by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance of Superchunk, a band that Spent toured with extensively throughout their career. In September 1996 the band released an EP entitled

neg: Spent (band) at XX Merge, the 20th anniversary celebration of the label. The band never received much attention outside of the 90's indie rock world. Spent (band) Spent was an American Indie Rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey consisting of singer/guitarist John King, guitarist/singer/keyboardist Annie Hayden, bassist/occasional vocalist Joe Weston and drummer Ed Radich. Spent formed in the early 1990s in Jersey City, New Jersey. After releasing several EPs under various independent labels the band released their first full album. "Songs of Drinking and Rebellion" was released in March 1995 on Merge Records, an indie label formed by Mac McCaughan and

neg: William Maxwell (Continental Army general) Battle of Cooch's Bridge prior to the Battle of Brandywine. Maxwell's brigade served as the reserve at the October Battle of Germantown, and spent the winter at Valley Forge. After Germantown Maxwell was brought up on charges of excessive drinking. In May 1778, Washington sensed that the British were evacuating Philadelphia, so he sent General Maxwell with four New Jersey regiments and two pieces of artillery to reinforce the New Jersey militia. Maxwell's troops were among those harassing the British as they crossed New Jersey to New York, and were involved in the Battle of Monmouth. He was a member

neg: New Zealand Young Nationals alcohol of 18 years. They argue that the two biggest problems with the current law are the lack of emphasis on individual responsibility, and the ineffective attempts to enforce moderate drinking, and that raising the age, both at off-licences and at bars, will not solve the problem that New Zealand society faces around the issue of binge drinking. At the National Party Conference 2010 the Young Nationals passed a remit, led by 2010 National Policy Chair Edward Greig, for the continuation of a drinking age of 18. The Young Nationals do not support increasing the driving age and believe that

neg: Swimming River Reservoir Swimming River Reservoir The Swimming River Reservoir is a reservoir in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It is located on the border of Colts Neck, Holmdel and Lincroft. The Swimming River ends up in the reservoir, as well as other small tributaries. The Swimming River Reservoir is managed by New Jersey American Water Company and provides drinking water for residents of Monmouth County. The reservoir has a design peak capacity of 159 megalitres per day. All drainage from Colts Neck empties into the reservoir. Some local roads that cross over the Swimming River Reservoir include Phalanx Road, Swimming River Road (both

neg: Fairview, Monmouth County, New Jersey had a median income of $65,986 versus $31,510 for females. The per capita income was $29,914. About 1.8% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.3% of those under age 18 and 1.3% of those age 65 or over. New Jersey Transit offers local bus service on the 834 route. New Jersey Route 35 is a major highway in Fairview linking the CDP to Red Bank and Keyport. Fairview, Monmouth County, New Jersey Fairview is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As

neg: Pennsylvania Highlands Region and African peoples to the eastern counties, and Hispanic peoples region wide, who are skyrocketing in growth especially in counties such as Berks, Lehigh, and Lancaster. The heavily forested region is seen as ecologically significant because, among other things, its dense forests serve to protect and supply clean drinking water to more than 15 million people, including large portions of both New Jersey and New York. The Pennsylvania Highlands also possess acknowledgement as a rural vacationing area and have even been recognized by the U.S. Forest Service as a "landscape of national significance" and by the State of New Jersey

neg: New Jersey American Water New Jersey American Water New Jersey American Water is the largest water utility in the U.S. State of New Jersey, serving around two and a half million people in 183 communities in 17 counties throughout the state, supplying high-quality water and wastewater service. Headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, New Jersey American Water is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Water. In New Jersey, the Board of Public Utilities and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection set the rules for New Jersey American Water to follow. Those regulations are what help to ensure everyone is receiving high-quality water and

neg: Millstone River Millstone River The Millstone River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States. The Millstone River begins in western Monmouth County and flows northward through southern Somerset County into the Raritan River at Manville. Almost three quarters of its length is paralleled by the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Both the Millstone River and parallel canal provide drinking water to portions of central New Jersey and provide recreational uses as well. The Millstone River starts in western Monmouth County at , near CR-524 (Stage Coach Road). It flows northeast and turns north before picking