Middle school Girl Scouts from the Wallkill Valley Service Unit worked with the WRWMG Education Specialist as part of a statewide road salt study being conducted with the NJ Watershed Watch Network. This winter, the girls will be testing different streams and lakes throughout the Wallkill River Watershed to assess how much road salt enters local

The WRWMG has been capitalizing on the mild winter weather by continuing to process the plastic tree tubes that have been installed on each of its saplings within the 4-miles reforestation corridor. The tree tubes are designed to remain on the young tr

Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy start to 2023 from all of us at the WRWMG!

Volunteer and Community Engagement

• In 2022, the SCMUA-WRWMG worked with 677 volunteers who contributed a total of 1192 volunteer hours. Vo

All of us at the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group wish you and your families a joyous holiday season and healthy and happy start to 2023!

While conducting maintenance at the reforestation corridor in Lafayette, we spotted this barred owl using our trees!  Looks like we are successfully creating wildlife habitat!

The WRWMG has been performing fall maintenance activities at its floodplain reforestation sites within the Paulins Kill Watershed. As part of this effort, the

A group of local scouts worked with the WRWMG’s Education and Outreach Specialist to organize a litter clean-up at Newton’s Memory Park. In total, the 12 volunteers were able to collect 9 bags of garbage and 6 bags of recycling from the park.

Photo Credit: Jim Wright/TNC/LightHawk

The Delaware River Water Gap is home to more than 150 miles of trails. That’s 150 reasons to be #Grateful4theDelaware. Check out a new trail this weekend with your

20 environmental science students from Sussex County Technical School recently worked with the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to plant trees at the SC

Sussex County is home to some of the best hiking trails in NJ. This Take a Hike Day, check out some new hiking trails in our area. Here is a list of the Top 10 hiking locations in NJ: https://www.njhiking.com/top-10-hikes-nj/

Sussex County Community College (SCCC) environmental science students learned about the Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority’s landfill/recycling center, wastewater treatment plant, and watershed program during a series of presentations conducted on campus. At the end of November, SCCC students will be also be taking a first-hand tou

Did you know that each year over 1 million sea birds and animals are killed from ingesting plastic? On #AmericaRecyclesDay we want to highlight the damage caused by plastic in our waterways. What are YOU going to do to stop this?

At WRWMG, we are starting a new partnership with TerraCycle to prop

53 seventh grade students at Frankford Middle School worked with the WRWMG to plant 75 native trees and shrubs along a Paulins Kill River tributary that flows through their school grounds. The students came out during their science classes and each had a

The Wallkill River Watershed Management Group (WRWMG) worked with Cerbo’s Nursery to install a new homeowner rain garden at Culver Lake in Frankford Township. The rain garden was completed as part of the WRWMG’s homeowner rain garden installa

Pope John High School environmental science students worked with Rutgers Water Resources Program and the WRWMG to complete a rain garden planting on the school’s campus. 19 high school students and community volunteers helped to plant 650 native flo

Kristine Rogers provided a project update at the quarterly meeting of the NJ Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership about the Cardinal Hayes High School planting that the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group hosted at the Wallkill River Nation

The 2022-2023 class of AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors worked with the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group to plant trees on the wastewater treatment plant property owned and operated by the Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority. 200 t

Students from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, NY recently worked with the Wallkill River Watershed Management Group and the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge staff to plant trees and shrubs along the Wallkill River. A total of 24

Over 13 million people (approximately 4% of the nation's population) in 4 states - including New Jersey - rely on the waters of the Delaware River Basin for drinking, washing, and farming. We can’t go a #DayWithoutTheDelaware!

The WRWMG installed 2 floating treatment wetlands at Kemah Lake this weekend with 5 volunteers from the lake community. Floating treatment wetlands are planted with native wetland plants that help take up nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen from t

Using funding from the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, the WRWMG was able to purchase 2 floating treatment wetlands for Lake Owassa. The floating treatment wetlands are planted with native flowers and shrubs and are designed to help purify the lake. Pollutant

Halsted Middle School 6th graders helped to clean up litter from Memory Park to kick off the start of the new school year! In total, 5 bags of recycling and 3 bags of garbage were removed from Memory Park in Newton, helping to keep litter out of the Paulins Kill River.