Please come out to support TU’s Musconetcong Home Rivers Initiative and our partners at the Musconetcong Watershed Association (MWA) for a clean up following the floods of Hurricane Irene and the remnants of tropical storm Lee a week later. These were the two highest floods on record for this watershed and much debris has entered the river and is in need of a large-scale clean up effort. Volunteers will meet at one of three primary sites and be assigned local stretches of the river or local roads to clean along with garbage sacks and gloves. Meeting locations at 9 a.m. are 1) North = San Bar Park/Alumni Field off Waterloo Road in Hackettstown a short distance from rt. 46 under the large pine trees near the football field. 2) Central = Hampton Borough Park in Hampton right where rt. 31 crosses the Musky. And 3) South = the Hughesville paper mill building’s front parking lot where Cypher’s Road crosses county road 627 (Riegelsville Warren Glen Road) down about a mile below where rt. 519 crosses the river next to the upper defunct paper mill. Please contact the MWA or Brian Cowden at: BCowden@tu.org or by cell at 201-230-3383 if you plan to help and which of the 3 meeting locations best fits your situation. The annual April river clean up will remain as planned, we did not want to wait that long considering the recent floods, hence our October date.
The colors will be terrific and there will be plenty of fall stocked fish as well as wild and holdovers waiting for your skills after noon.
