Volunteers Needed to Help Clean Loantaka Brook

Local Environmental Group Plans to Battle Pollution for National River Cleanup Week

Morristown, NJ — The Great Swamp Watershed Association (GSWA) in partnership with the NJ AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassadors Program will tackle pollution and clean up the Loantaka Brook in Morris Township on Saturday, June 6th, as part of National River Cleanup Week. The public is encouraged and invited to help. The organized cleanup will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and volunteers should meet at the Loantaka Brook Reservation Kitchell Pond Area Pavilion in Morris Township.

National River Cleanup Week, presented by American Rivers, is designed to raise public awareness on the magnitude of trash accumulating in our nation’s waterways. Morris County volunteers will be joining tens of thousands of other volunteers across the country working at hundreds of cleanup sites to remove trash from local rivers and streams.

“Last year, our volunteers collected enough debris in Loantaka Brook alone to fill 10 large trash bags. Interestingly enough, this is actually less litter than we’d collected the previous year. I think this shows that our past clean-up efforts had some staying power, and that people are being more vigilant about cleaning up their trash,” said Kelley Curran, GSWA’s Director of Water Quality Programs.

Anyone interested in helping to clean Loantaka Brook on June 6 should contact Kelley Curran at 973-538-3500, kcurran@greatswamp.org, or Erin Bye at 201-213-2304, ambassador.wma6@earthlink.net.

For more information about National River Cleanup Week, visit www.nationalrivercleanup.org.

 

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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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