McKeown Elementary School in Hampton Township is in the midst of repaving the school’s parking lot, but this parking lot will be different from all of the other schools in Sussex County. With funding provided by the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group, McKeown School will be insta

The New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program is an environmental stewardship-oriented AmeriCorps program designed to raise awareness about water concerns.

Ambassadors serve with all sectors of society to improve the quality of New Jersey’s waterways by: educating the public on w

Green Day kicked off on Monday morning under the Performing Arts tent. Fairgoers has an opportunity to interact with numerous non-profit, governmental, and private organizations that are focused around making ecological products or educating the community about environmental stewardship.

Thanks to grant funding provided by NJ Future, the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group just wrapped up its third installment of Stormwater Summer Camp at McKeown Elementary School in Hampton Township. 5th through 7th graders participated in a week of hands-on learning focused around the

Visit the Kosa County Building at the NJ State Fair to see the SCMUA-WRWMG’s display. The Fair is taking place in Augusta now through August 11.

NEWTON- Halsted Middle School students who participate in the Choose 2 Connect (C2C) program recently worked side-by-side with the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to install a rain garden in the front of their school. The project was modeled after the successful installation of anot

Students from Merriam Avenue School and Halsted Middle School recently worked with the SCMUA-WRWMG to build and paint rain barrels to be installed at Newton High School. The barrels collect and store stormwater coming off of the roof of the science building. The

Representatives from the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and TNC recently initiated floodplain reforestation work on a new piece of land owned by The Nature Conservancy. The trees were funded as part of a grant award from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and will help to establ

The Newton Board of Education has approved the installation of a rain garden at the Halsted Middle School campus. The SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group will be working in partnership with Rutgers Water Resources Program and the Newton Department of Public Works to construct the rain g

Rain barrels are just one way to collect and clean polluted rain water before it hits the Paulins Kill River. We can all learn ways to protect our creeks and streams from the students at McKeown Elementary School, where one teacher is planting the seed of lifelong conservatio

Filled with spongy soil and native plants, rain gardens allow water from heavy storms to soak slowly into the ground and filter out harmful substances that rain picks up from roofs, parking lots and lawns on its way to our sources of drinking water. Want to play your own role?

The SCMUA-WRWMG recently worked with a local Sussex County farm to install cattle exclusion fencing along the Clove Brook. The fencing will prevent the animals from having unlimited access to the brook, helping to reduce animal waste from entering the stream while also preventing the cat

A.P. environmental science students from High Point High School worked alongside the SCMUA-WRWMG and Sussex Borough DPW to plant trees at Boggs Field in Sussex Borough. The Borough has plans to redevelop the area into a park complete with picnic tables for local residents to use. Today’s eff

A soil scientist from USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service recently worked alongside representatives of the WRWMG and TNC to study the soil conditions of their floodplain reforestation site along the Paulins Kill River in Lafayette.

He found that the soil was high in organic content, whi

Kristine Rogers, the WRWMG Education Specialist, recently led a water conservation and protection station for Kindergarten through 2nd grade students at McKeown Elementary School in Hampton, NJ. STEAM Day exposed students to a range of different activities focused around science, technology, en

7th graders from Sparta Middle School participated in a rotation of different environmentally-focused stations led by numerous conservation organizations. Guest presenters from the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Sussex County Office of

Blueflag irises are in bloom throughout the Memory Park rain garden. The rain garden was installed in 2017 by the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group, in partnership with Rutgers Water Resources Program, the Town of Newton, Merriam Avenue School, NJ Future, NJ Audubon, Cerbo’s Nurse

Halsted Middle School student, Piper Vanderhoof, recently wrote an article about the budding partnership between the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and the Newton School District. Together, both groups hope to work with Rutgers Water Resources Program to create a series of stormwater management projects at all of the township’s schools.

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