Great Swamp Watershed Association
Visit us at:
568 Tempe Wick Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Mail us at:
P.O. Box 300
New Vernon, NJ 07976
Call us at:
(973) 538-3500
FAX:
(973) 538-5300
Protecting water and land in your town...
Please help us achieve our mission to protect drinking water and preserve land to maintain the natural beauty and enhance the livability of your town.
Highlights
Raise Funds for GSWA by Searching and Shopping Online
Search the web with GoodSearch.com and each time you do a search, GoodSearch will donate a penny to GSWA!
Shop online at GoodShop.com and a percentage of each purchase will be donated to GSWA! More than 600 top stores are participating including Amazon, Target, Staples, Best Buy and more!
Visit Our Conservation Management Area!
You’re invited to explore our Conservation Management Area (CMA), a wooded 53-acre natural area in Harding Township that’s open to the public for walking and casual hiking. Though GSWA holds a number of scheduled events throughout the year — family hikes, group tours, and moonlight walks to name a few, you can enjoy the CMA on your own at your convenience [read more] [directions].
Educator Workshops
Great Swamp Watershed Association is facilitating several interesting and useful workshops for K-12 formal and non-formal educators. Educators will experience activities they can use back in the classroom or Nature Center to teach across the educational curriculum.
Coming up...
Healthy Waters Healthy People Workshop
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Hot Breakfast, Cool Discussion
GSWA’s Breakfast Briefings are on holiday and will resume in the Spring. You can see what topics were covered in our Fall 2009 series here.
Rain? What Rain?
On Wednesday, October 28, during the two inches of rain and the flooding it caused, you’d think most folks would be warm and dry and tucked up inside with a cup of something hot. Not the three hardy souls from Eisner LLP, a Florham Park based CPA firm that volunteered at GSWA’s Conservation Management Area despite the rain and wet. Along with GSWA’s hard core volunteers Bob Crocco and Steve Gruber, the three (pictured with Hazel England, left), Freddy Farinhas, Bobby Benas, and Mike Somer, waded through flooded trails to drag felled red maples out of a marsh currently being restored. Though they got their cup of hot coffee, it was served under a dripping canopy at the CMA, as the three donned rubber boots and rain ponchos to prepare for the day. With water to the tops of their knee boots the three musketeers still determined they would rather be out here than in the office! We thank Eisner for providing us such tenacious volunteers. Now isn’t that the kind of accountant you want working for you on your taxes!
Other corporations such as Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and Verizon have given workdays this year too. To learn more about volunteer corporate workdays with GSWA, click here.
White Paper
Troubled Waters: Pharma Products in Our Water Supply
Silver Brook Watershed Management Plan
For more info, contact
Kelley Curran,
(973) 538-3500, ext. 16.
Report on Water Quality in
Great Brook
For more info, contact
Kelley Curran,
(973) 538-3500, ext. 16.
Related Sites of Interest
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: www.fws.gov/northeast/greatswamp
Friends of Great Swamp NWR: www.friendsofgreatswamp.org
Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center (Morris County Park Commission): www.morrisparks.net/aspparks/gswampmain.asp
Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center: www.somersetcountyparks.org/programs/EEC/eec_main.htm