Sponsored by:

  • American Rivers
  • Bedminster Township
  • Califon Borough
  • Clinton Township
  • Crown Trophy of Flemington
  • Far Hills Borough
  • Flemington Borough
  • Borough of Glen Gardner
  • Hot Rods Hot Dogs
  • Hunterdon County Utilities Authority
  • Morris County Clean Communities
  • Mount Olive Township
  • Peapack-Gladstone Borough
  • Raritan Township
  • Raritan Valley Disposal
  • ShopRites of Hunterdon County, Inc.
  • Somerset County Solid Waste Management
  • Special T's
  • Town of Clinton
  • Township of Roxbury
  • Union Township

Clean Streams

Each spring RHA organizes clean up programs to protect water quality and promote public stewardship of local streams and rivers.

Stream Clean Up Hand-Outs 2013 (1)

How to Register

Our 2013 Stream Clean Up will take place on Saturday, April 20th at sites across the region from 9:00 a.m. to noon.  We’ll provide each participant with gloves and trash bags, snacks and a commemorative t-shirt.

To get involved, first use the interactive map to find a stream clean up site close to where you live. To officially register for your preferred site or let us know about a stream site that needs attention, please contact RHA’s Watershed Ambassador Kelsey Barbella at 908-234-1852, ext. 323 or email.


View Stream Cleanup Sites in a larger map

Program History

Ann Greszczak's 6th grade class working together to remove a large tire rim from the South Brach near Mount Olive

Ann Greszczak’s 6th grade class working together to remove a large tire rim from the South Brach near Mount Olive

 

Our clean up programs began in 1991.  They have been successful thanks to the volunteers who coordinate clean up efforts at various sites across the region, the volunteers who venture out along and into the streams to remove debris, the municipalities and businesses who provide financial and in-kind support for the supplies we need each year and the local media who help us recruit volunteers.

Cub Scouts at display the trash they collected from the South Branch at Kiceniuk

Cub Scouts at display the trash they collected from the South Branch at Kiceniuk

 

 

In 2012, over 500 members of scout troops, churches, community clubs, environmental commissions and businesses joined individuals and families for our 22nd Annual Stream Clean Up on Saturday, April 21st.  In less than three hours, these volunteers pulled almost four tons of trash from stream banks at 23 different sites in Hunterdon, Morris and Somerset Counties.  Along with items that everyone might expect would be found in and near the water – tangled fishing line, snack bar wrappers, and an occasional glove – the groups removed car tires (at one site alone, volunteers gathered 21 tires!), a unicycle, a plastic swing, a refrigerator and even a golf cart from the waterways.