A piece of the $1 trillion federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is set to be allotted to Stockton University to help clean local waterways. As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week, Stockton’s Marine Field Station is recommended for an award of $1.4 million for marine debris removal. With an additional $300,000 matching grant from the university itself, the grant’s total exceeds $1.7 million.

The funding has two major components: expanding a program with local fishing industries to identify and remove lost…