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Floodplain and Riparian Restoration Project gets Underway in Town of Newton's Memory Park

To end a successful 2014-2015 school year, approximately 25 3^rd and 4^th grade students from the Town of Newton’s Merriam Avenue School joined representatives from the WRWMG and The Nature Conservancy and participated in a tree planting day at Memory Park in order to learn how to become active watershed stewards.  The students received an educational lesson about how people cause waterways to become contaminated from non-point source pollution before they had an opportunity to assist with a reforestation effort along the headwaters to the Paulins Kill at Memory Park.  The students successfully planted 125 trees at the site and left with a greater appreciation for how to protect the waterways in their home community.  This effort was conducted as part of a larger watershed restoration partnership project between the Town of Newton and the SCMUA-Wallkill River Watershed Management Group, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to initiate both riparian reforestation and stormwater management projects throughout Newton.