Our March 20 meeting will be a chance to get up to speed on LRWP projects and to plan for 2017. The meeting will be held from 10-noon in the Middlesex County Planning Offices at 75 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, NJ – 5th floor mid-size conference room. Parking is validated for those parking on floors ... Read More
Our April 17 meeting will focus on stormwater management, and will include a discussion of regional approaches to stormwater management. The agenda will include an overview of federal expectations with respect to MS4 requirements, with Matt Klewin (NJDEP) presenting on "Update on Changes in the New MS4 Revision". Manville Borough Administrator Andrea Bierwirth will speak ... Read More
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
On April 29th, the LRWP will join in on the Rutgers Day festivities on the Cook/Douglass campus (New Brunswick). Rutgers Day, formerly known as Ag Field Day, is an annual event that began in 1917 intended to involve the community in University programs through tours, performances, hands-on activities, demonstrations, exhibits, lectures, and more. This ... Read More
Join the LRWP for Rutgers Day festivities 2025! Find us on the Cook/Douglass campus (New Brunswick) near "Passion Puddle." Rutgers Day, formerly known as Ag Field Day, is an annual event that began in 1917 intended to involve the community in University programs through tours, performances, hands-on activities, demonstrations, exhibits, lectures, and more. This ... Read More
At our May 15 meeting we will welcome Raritan Scholar interns, Rutgers Environmental Stewards, and LRWP volunteers to highlight their work on a diverse set of projects including a virtual tour of the Lower Raritan Watershed, a Story Map of Highland Park's Mill Brook, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive program in the Lower Raritan Watershed, ... Read More
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
Please join us for our May visual habitat assessment training with the LRWP and WMA9 Americorps Watershed Ambassador Katee Meckler! (Here's more on the LRWP's water quality monitoring programs). This FREE training will run from 9 AM - 1 PM at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension EARTH Center at Davidson's Mill Pond, located at 42 Riva ... Read More
At our June 19 meeting we will welcome our Watershed Ambassador Katee Meckeler to provide an overview of her water quality monitoring in the watershed in 2016 and 2017. Based on her findings Katee will highlight areas and ideas for potential restoration. The meeting will be held from 10-noon in the Middlesex County Planning Offices ... Read More
The July 17 LRWP meeting will be held from 10-noon in the Middlesex County Planning Offices at 75 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, NJ – 5th floor mid-size conference room. We welcome Professor JeanMarie Hartman and her students Sophie Benaroyan, BoYoung Park, and Colin Marx who will speak on the following topics: "Factors Affecting Infiltration Rates ... Read More
