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:
“I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“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)