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COMING EVENTS
Future
Events organized by or partnered by LBWP.
1.
We shall be doing a further environmental cleanup in Milltown
before the summer comes. It will take place on
Sunday, May 20th from 2PM to 5PM.
We still have at least five areas remaining to be cleaned after the
cleanup on March 31st. See flier
attached for details.
2.
We shall not be holding a Membership Meeting in May. We hope
to hold a
Membership Meeting in June on Tuesday, June 19th. Details
later.
3.
We hope to have a Summer Nature
Walk in July. Not certain yet which weekend it will be.
As soon as we have confirmed it, we will let you all know.
4.
We are working to make the
Conference on Lawrence Brook Watershed Flooding Mitigation happen in
August. We have quite a number of partners who have agreed
to participate. If you would like to help us organize the event,
please let us know. There is voluntary work for a considerable number
of people.
5.
The LBWP currently has a project called
"Watershed-Friendly Resident".
We are developing the details at this time, and expect to roll it out
within the next few weeks. We will be asking you all to consider
becoming Watershed Friendly Residents by committing to do at least 20
Actions from a larger number from which to choose, which will help the
Lawrence Brook Watershed to be more environmentally healthy. We hope
that many of you are already doing many of these Actions. More in the
next mailing.
Environmental
Issues
a. The
Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC) has
requested that we support the following environmental initiative.
ANJEC has joined
with Environment New Jersey and other environmental organizations in
urging voters to email local legislators today and urge them to block
Governor Christie’s decision to withdraw New Jersey from the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI reduces health threats to
children and families by setting concrete limits on power plant
pollution, forcing polluters to pay for their emissions and using that
money to fund pioneering clean energy initiatives. See www.environmentnewjersey.org which
has a report giving details of how and why the RGGI program works.
Also see www.norollback.org for
more details. Also see NJ Senate bill S1322.
Please email your
local legislators today and urge them to defend our air and health.
There was a lobby day in Trenton, Thursday, March 15th. In the
coming weeks, ANJEC and other environmentalists will launch a
coordinated effort to mobilize a surge of public support for this
critical clean air program. ANJEC www.anjec.org P.O.
Box 157 Mendham NJ 07945 (973) 539-7547 The legislature is presently
trying to persuade enough legislators to override the Governor's veto.
This could happen later this week. They need your input.
b.
American Cyanamid Proposed Cleanup Plan. The
EPA hearing was held March 8th, at Somerset Vocational and Technical
High School, Bridgewater, NJ. Descriptions of action taken to date
and the EPA proposal for cleanup of the site can be found at www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/american_cyanamid/
Comments may be submitted until May 15th. Also,
please pass around the following petition, which goes directly into
the public comment record when signed: http://www.change.org/petitions/don-t-let-pfizer-fill-a-floodplain-with-toxic-waste
Events
in the General Area
A.
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is organizing a
workshop called "Build Your Own Rain Barrel on Saturday, June 16th
from 10AM to 12 Noon at their HQ in Pennington. For
details, please see the attachment. We certainly encourage
residents to install rain barrels at their home. It is one of the
Actions in the Watershed-Friendly Resident Program which we are
introducing shortly. See 5 above.
The Lawrence Brook
Watershed Partnership is an all-volunteer watershed 501(c)3 nonprofit
working to protect the environment in the Lawrence Brook watershed
communities of South Brunswick, North Brunswick, East Brunswick,
Milltown, and New Brunswick, Middlesex County. The public is invited
to all public meetings and to participate in the important volunteer
work of watershed protection.
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