April 22 Clean-up in New Brunswick, with RHA, coLAB Arts

Boyd Park - 5 Memorial Pkwy, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 New Street and Route 18 North, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The LRWP, coLAB Arts and the Raritan Headwaters Association are co-hosting a special Earth Day clean-up of New Brunswick's waterfront on Saturday April 22. Please park in the New Brunswick Landing Parking Lot, located at the crossroads of Route 18 and New Street (see directions below). There will be signs up to direct folks to ... Read More

May 20 – Pollinator Planting in New Brunswick’s Buccleuch Park

Buccleuch Park 321 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick, United States

Please join the LRWP, New Brunswick Environmental Commission, New Brunswick Parks & Gardens Commission, Rutgers’ Collaborative Center, and the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture to help plant milkweed in our pollinator garden in New Brunswick’s Buccleuch Park. At this event we will focus on planting hundreds of milkweed plants started ... Read More

Boyd Park Scavenger Hunt Clean-Up

Boyd Park - 5 Memorial Pkwy, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 New Street and Route 18 North, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

What is the most common type of litter in Boyd Park? Is there more paper or plastic in the grass? How many cigarette butts can you find? How many bottle caps? What is the most unusual item hiding in the bushes? Join the LRWP and coLAB Arts on Sunday September 10, 10-noon for a River ... Read More

Mile Run Brook Community Cleanup! (New Brunswick)

Mile Run Brook Parking - Sts Peter and Paul Church 285 Hamilton Street, Somerset, NJ, United States

~VOLUNTEERS NEEDED~ Please join the LRWP, our Americorps Watershed Ambassador and community partners including Friends of Mile Run Brook, Greater Brunswick Charter School, Esperanza Neighborhood Project, the New Brunswick Environmental Commission, Elmwood Cemetery and the New Brunswick Department of Public Works for a multi-site clean-up of Mile Run Brook, culminating in a community celebration in ... Read More

September 17, LRWP monthly meeting

At our September 17 meeting we will welcome Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agent Tobiah Horton to discuss a plan for rooftop and impervious surface drainages recreating an historic New Brunswick stream. The "Recreated Lyell's Brook Green Infrastructure Corridor and Walkway" concept plan is an outgrowth of the Rail-Arts-River initiative developed by the LRWP, coLAB Arts and ... Read More

Watershed Sculpture Project @ New Brunswick’s Mercado

Joyce Kilmer Park Delavan Street and Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

Join the LRWP and coLAB Arts for a "hands-on" watershed sculpture project at the September 23 Mercado in New Brunswick's Joyce Kilmer Park.

PARK(ing) Day 2019!

PARK(ing) Day parking spot 78 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. ... Read More

New Brunswick Conservation Zone clean-up

Lowes Movie Theater 17 US Highway 1, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The LRWP and Middlesex County Division of Parks are co-hosting our first clean-up of 2020 of a very special area in New Brunswick – the New Brunswick Conservation Zone! This clean-up will take place at 9:30 AM on Saturday February 22 We will meet in the far corner of the New Brunswick AMC Movie Theater ... Read More

City of Water Day on the Raritan!

Boyd Park - 5 Memorial Pkwy, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 New Street and Route 18 North, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

On Saturday September 12, the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership will join groups throughout the New York New Jersey Harbor Estuary in bringing attention to climate change and the resilient nature of our waterfront neighborhoods. This year we focus on our New Brunswick, NJ community and landscape and will offer programming in New Brunswick's waterfront Boyd ... Read More

#FRAMES sculpture build in Boyd Park

Boyd Park - 5 Memorial Pkwy, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 New Street and Route 18 North, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

#lookfortheriver: FRAMES sculpture installation On Saturday November 7 join the LRWP and sculpture artist Tobiah Horton (Rubble R & D) during a “work day” as Toby installs a new sculpture #lookfortheriver: FRAME in New Brunswick’s Boyd Park Raritan River riverfront. New Brunswick’s Boyd Park floodplain suffers repeat flood inundation, and serves as a protective “sponge” ... Read More