Nathaniel Sajdak, SCMUA-WRWMG, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Peter Homack Award. The award honors Nathaniel's 25-year career at the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group. The Peter Homack Award is presented by the New Jersey Section of the American Water Resources Associa

Come join the staff at the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group for an environmental festival that will be fun for the whole family! At Sparta Township's Earth Day Fair, there will be exhibits from NJ environmental organizations, hands-on

Please join SCMUA-WRWMG and our AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassador at a litter clean-up in Franklin Borough on April 10th from 10:00-12:00. Visit this website to register: https://forms.gle/B5JKinxTzvKc5zry5<

Come join the staff at the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group for an environmental festival that will be fun for the whole family! At Sparta Township's Earth Day Fair, there will be exhibits from NJ environmental organizations, hands-o

The SCMUA-WRWMG recently partnered with the Foodshed Alliance's Paulins Kill Watershed Community Group to remove tree shelters from the floodplain forest that was planted along the Paulins Kill River in Newton's Memory Park beginning in 2014. Du

On Saturday, the SCMUA-WRWMG's Watershed Programs Manager organized and hosted a road salt training in partnership with the Lake Mohawk Preservation Foundation. The event, which was held at the Lake Mohawk Country Club, welcomed 26 community members and students. Attendees learned about the unintended consequences of road salt application to str

On Saturday, February 7th, come to the Lake Mohawk Country Club for an educational lesson about road salt water testing and the impact that road salt can have on local streams. All are welcome.

Want to learn how to monitor streams for road salt impacts? Come to this training to find out how! The AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassador for the Wallkill River Watershed will be te

Here's a look back at all of the activities that the SCMUA-WRWMG accomplished in 2025!

New Grant Funding and Awards

• In 2025, National

Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season and happy and heathy start to the new year!

From all of us at the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund has selected the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group’s grant as one of its 2025 recipients for funding. A total of 68 proj

Ecology and biology students at Sparta High School worked to plant American chestnut seeds on upland property owned by the Sparta Board of Education. The goal of this restoration project is to try to reestablish a small plot of American chestnut at the school

The SCMUA-WRWMG's AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassador recently organized a litter clean-up at TJ Dunn Community Park in Sussex Borough with 13 volunteers

A.P. environmental science students from High Point High School worked with the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to install 2,600 dormant hardwood cuttings at Woodbourne Park in Wantage Township. Each cutting is a clone of the parent plant

Current and former AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors from the Wallkill River Watershed reunited at Wantage’s Papakating Park to plant trees within the wetlands of the park. The participating Watershed Ambassadors spanned 25 years of the

The SCMUA-WRWMG has been planting trees within Papakating Park to establish a forested buffer to protect the Papakating Creek against nonpoint source pollutant runoff. By the completion of its NJDEP grant, the SCMUA-WRWMG will have installed 8 acres of riparian

On Monday, the entire class of AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors came up to Sussex County to participate in the annual tree planting training led by the SCMUA-WRWMG staff. During this event, 250 native trees and shrubs were planted at the former Culve

The Sussex County Association of Realtors’ Community Outreach Committee recently worked with the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to remove tree tubes

On Saturday, the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group organized its first tree planting event at the Culver Brook Preserve (former Culver Lake Golf Course) in partnership with the Greater Culver Lake Watershed Conservation Foundation. 11 volunteers came o

The Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority was recently awarded an NJDEP Recycling Award in the Outstanding Educator/Educational Program category. The NJDEP recognized the success of the SCMUA's annual Earth Day event, its participation in Gree

6th grade students from Halsted Middle School in Newton recently participated in a litter clean-up organized by the SCMUA-WRWMG. The students picked up 4 trash bags of garbage and 4 bags of recycling from the park, helping to prevent the litter from contaminat

On Friday, October 17, Centenary University welcomed residents and ecological staff from Northern New Jersey to a day of environmental learning and networking at the North Jersey Rivers Conference. Attendees participated in a series of 9 worksho

Join us at the 2025 North Jersey Rivers Conference!

WHEN: 8:30am-4:30pm | Friday, October 17, 2025