This summer, the Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership will partner with the Central Jersey chapter of Sewa International to train the next generation of citizen scientists! The collaboration will focus on the Green Brook litter trap, a project funded through the ‘damages’ assessment of the Cornell Dubilier Electronics site in Plainfield. Together with a handful of science-minded high school students, we will be assessing our toolkit for counting the litter trap’s collections, imagining new ways of protecting our streams, and investigating the point-source of various pollutants in the Green Brook. In a few days, our Sewa volunteers will begin posting their findings.

This project is part of the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan (NRDAR Plan), and our partners include Dunellen, Green Brook, and the Cornell Dubilier Trustees (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration).

Stay tuned!