Start Your Day with GSWA

Harding Township —Great Swamp Watershed Association’s breakfast briefings resume on September 15 with “Citizen Science — What’s In It For You?” Learn from Danielle Donkersloot, NJDEP’s Volunteer Monitoring Coordinator, about opportunities for citizens to actively participate in observing the environmental health of the state through such programs as World Water Monitoring Day, Community Collaborative Rain/Hail/Snow (CoCoRaHS) network, oil spill monitoring, horsehoe crab counts, and more.

Rounding out this fall’s breakfast briefings series is a presentation on October 13 entitled “How to Go Back₂Tap — Tap Water That Is,” with guest speaker Lydia Chambers, Back₂Tap co-founder and long time Chatham resident. And on November 10, David Rosen, LEED-certified architect and partner in Rosen Group Architecture/Design will present “Conserving Energy At Home.”

Each briefing will take place from 8 - 9:30 a.m. at the Great Swamp Watershed Association’s offices at 568 Tempe Wick Rd., Harding Township. A complimentary continental breakfast will be served. Donations are gratefully accepted.To learn more and pre-register, visit www.greatswamp.org or call 973-538-3500 x22.

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Founded in 1981, the Great Swamp Watershed Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the water and land of the 36,000-acre watershed region in Morris and Somerset counties. The organization works to maintain the beauty and health of open space, and to monitor and protect five streams: Loantaka Brook, Great Brook, Primrose Brook, Black Brook, and the Upper Passaic — which feed into the Passaic River and providing drinking water to more than a million people.
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