Oyster Creek is a 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km) tributary of Barnegat Bay in southeastern New Jersey in the United States.
The creek is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Forked River in southern Ocean County.
The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is located on an 800-acre (3.2 km2) site at Forked River.
Famous quotes containing the words oyster and/or creek:
“From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)