Yesterday, the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group was honored to receive the Governor's Environmental Excellence Award in the Environmental Education category for its Stormwater Summer Camp hosted at McKeown Elementary School in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Students from Newton’s after school Choose 2 Connect program worked alongside Kristine Rogers of the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to learn about how pollution enters locals rivers and streams using the EnviroScape model. The presentation built off of informatio

Students at Halsted Middle School worked with the WRWMG’s Education Specialist to construct their own water filters. The lab was designed to teach students about the water filtration properties of rain gardens and other nature-based solutions to stormwater management.

Members of the Stillwater Environmental Commission and students and teachers from Ridge and Valley Charter School worked alongside the staff of the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and The Nature Conservancy to plant 250 trees along the Trout Brook, a tributary to the Paulins Kil

The entire class of 2019-2020 watershed ambassadors came up to Sussex County for a floodplain reforestation training led by the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group. The AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassadors learned about how to organize a tree planting partnership project in their

The SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group worked in partnership with Sussex County Department of Engineering and Sussex County Technical School to plant trees along the Wallkill River in Franklin Borough as part of a remediation project associated with new bridge construction at the

The Wallkill River Watershed Management Group in partnership with The Nature Conservancy has begun to remove tree tubes off of the large trees that were planted along the Paulins Kill River beginning in 2012. When new trees are planted, each tree trunk is protected with a plastic

Students from Merriam Avenue Elementary School in Newton, NJ worked with the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to participate in an impervious surfaces lab activity where students tested water infiltration rates on mulch, grass, and sidewalk surfaces. Through the activity,

The WRWMG’s Education Specialist worked alongside Newton Halsted Middle School students enrolled in the C2C (Choose 2 Connect) after school enrichment program to create porous pavers. Students were challenged to create a paver that would allow water to penetrate through it by using a co

The SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group in partnership with the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge organized a Wallkill River reforestation work day for earth science students at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, NY. 22 students and 3 teachers came out from the city to

Representatives of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection left Trenton to embark on a site visit to Sussex County to see examples of the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group’s floodplain reforestation, stormwater management, and agricultural projects that have been in

The SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group has been conducting maintenance on its Paulins Kill tree planting sites. Part of bi-annual maintenance has been removing plastic tree shelters and stakes from mature trees that were planted along the Paulins Kill River in 2014. Shelters can

The SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and ten other environmental organizations throughout northern NJ participated in a site tour for our Delaware River Watershed Initiative grant funders.

The tour highlighted protection, agricultural, and floodplain reforestation pr

On Saturday, members of the Fred S. Burroughs North Jersey chapter of Trout Unlimited came out to Decker Road in Lafayette to participate in a maintenance day along the Paulins Kill River. As part of the day, Trout Unlimited worked alongside the Wallkill River Watershed M

The Wallkill River Watershed Management Group hosted a rain garden maintenance day for Halsted Middle School students enrolled in the Choose 2 Connect (C2C) after school enrichment program in Newton. Students helped to beautify the rain garden that was installed on their school campus in summ

The WRWMG hosted a litter clean-up in Newton’s Memory Park with volunteers from Newton Elementary and Middle School's' Choose 2 Connect program, an after school enrichment program that connects students with local community groups for STEM-based activities and learning experiences. T

On Friday, the WRWMG worked with students from Newton High School and employees of Thorlabs for a combined volunteer event where participants helped to do maintenance (weeding and mulching) on the ran garden installed in the park as well as pick up litter before the garage and recycling washes into the

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group a $238,000 grant to install stormwater management projects at the elementary school, middle school, high school, and community college within Newton, NJ.

This K-college pro

This weekend, Hampton Township Boy Scouts and their families helped to complete the Kemah Lake rain garden project. The boys planted flowers and shrubs and spread mulch throughout the garden to prevent polluted stormwater runoff from flowing into the lake.

The SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and the Kemah Lake Association have partnered to build a demonstration rain garden at Kemah Lake. The rain garden was designed by Rutgers Water Resources Program and the excavation is being done by a local contractor who is also a lake resident. <

To cap off a successful year of Stormwater Summer Camp, students from McKeown Elementary School and their parents boarded a boat on Lake Hopatcong and learned about the history of the lake and the human impact on water quality. The trip was led by staff and volunteers f

Nathaniel Sajdak of the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and Chris Obropta of Rutgers Water Resources Program recently hosted a rain garden training workshop at the Normanoch Association Clubhouse at Culver Lake for residents interested in installing rain gardens on their own properties.