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
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
~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
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
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 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
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
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
#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
On Sunday June 22, join LRWP Water Quality Outreach Coordinator Dr. Johnny Meyer to learn about rain garden installation, and to assist with replanting of the rain garden at our sculptural #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
