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Transforming Our Trails 5 VOL. 55, NO. 4 Winter 2008–09 A publication of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, central New Jersey’s first environmental group. Your water. Your environment. Your voice. Inside 4... West Windsor Transforming Our Trails Water Quality 5... Imagine walking from your local park clear through to natural resources and bring Lori Citrone another community. Think it’s impossible? towns together to help protect Volunteer Spotlight our environment.” Well whether you’re looking for a leisurely stroll, regional 10... trek, or a carbon-free alternate commute, the Stony Brook- This winter, work continues Check out Millstone Watershed Association is hard at work improving on the Watershed Association’s the Calendar the depth and breadth of hiking options in our area. section of the Lawrence Hopewell of Events! Trail on the Watershed Reserve. The “Expanding regional connection is vital,” said Jim Waltman, Lawrence Hopewell Trail is a system Watershed Association Executive Director. “Community of 20 miles of multipurpose trails that run partnerships help build a shared appreciation of our through public and private lands in Lawrence and Hopewell townships. Our section of the trail along Wargo Road will soon provide a connection between the existing trail at Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Princeton Farms neighborhood, and beyond. We’re also actively working on completing a connection from Pennington’s Kunkle Park to Hopewell Borough Park. In addition, our more than 10 miles of foot trails on the Watershed Reserve will be getting an upgrade. In early 2008, the Watershed Association adopted a master plan for the Reserve. This plan calls for our trails to be organized more thematically, with clear points of The Watershed Reserve boasts more than 10 miles of origin and destination. This organizing concept, along hiking trails. Continued on page 6 Science Education Conservation Advocacy FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Shad in our ‘Shed? Carl Alderson and Dave block shad that make it past the Calco Dam (although Bean are passionate about I’ve met people who swear that they’ve seen shad in the American shad. Millstone further upstream). Alderson is a fisheries Alderson and Bean think shad would do fine in the biologist with the National Millstone River, assuming that current impediments to Oceanic and Atmospheric their migration can be removed and that the water quality Administration and Bean in the river does not deteriorate. They’ve asked the works for the NJ Depart- Watershed to help investigate the feasibility of restoring ment of Environmental shad to the Millstone and I have enthusias tically agreed. Protection. The two are convinced that shad and their cousins in the herring family can be restored to the Raritan Something happens to a river when its native fish River Basin, including the Millstone River and its tributaries. are gone. A part of the river’s soul is lost too. The loss of robust American shad runs from the Millstone Shad are anadromous, which means that they spend most happened so long ago that no one even knows to mourn. of their life at sea before migrating up rivers to spawn. To Fortunately, there are people like Carl Alderson and survive, they need both healthy freshwater and marine Dave Bean who can inspire us to dream. habitats and free passage between the two. Shad in our ‘Shed? That would be something! The fish are harmed by ocean pollution, polluted runoff in streams and rivers, and dams. Overfishing has become a larger and larger problem as ocean trawlers consume more and more fish. With shad stocks crashing throughout much of their range, fishery biologists are seeking opportunities to make more spawning habitat available for the fish. To do so requires breaching dams, constructing “fish ladders” around dams Timberlane Takes that cannot be breached, and improving water quality. Over Watershed Reserve Currently, three dams prevent shad and other In October, the entire sixth grade migratory fish from returning in any significant class from Timberlane Middle School in numbers to the Millstone River. Hopewell—more than 300 students in all— took part in a two-week intensive educational The Calco Dam, a 206-foot former utility structure that extends five feet out of the water, experience at the Watershed Reserve. is located on the Raritan River about two miles downstream from the Raritan’s confluence with A partnership between Watershed the Millstone. The dam currently blocks Association teacher-naturalists and most shad attempting to make their way up Timberlane staff, students took part in a the Raritan River, although a 15-foot wide variety of activities —everything from team “notch” in the dam allows some fish to pass building and survival techniques, to water when river flows are high. chemistry and writing poetry—building Smaller dams at the Manville Canal Cause- lasting connections to classmates way and at Blackwells Mills on the Millstone and the environment. 2 Winter 2008–09 www.thewatershed.org STREAMWATCHING Focus: Royce Brook Subwatershed StreamWatch employs the watchful eyes and willing S O M E R S E T C O U N T Y k hands of more than 80 volunteers to monitor key indica- o o r B New tors of stream health, including aquatic life, nutrients, Jersey oyce R r e v dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH, erosion, canopy i R Six Mile cover, and many other features. With 36 chemical and R u ne n o T lst e P il n 14 biological sites, the coverage is extensive throughout i H U N T E R D O N k M M e i l e R the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed. R C O U N T Y R u o n u ck n ok M I D D L E S E X Each year we host an AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassador Bro C O U N T Y k k Broo o to supplement the work of our staff and volunteers. The den o S Be Br t te on o y M I L L S T O N E thc B He a Watershed Ambassador, a position funded by the New r o o W A T E R S H E D l k k a o n ro Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, helps a B C S ls hallow evi an D Broo rit k us promote watershed education and perform monitor- a R & ing. Twenty such ambassadors are employed throughout re a n bury M Cra Brook aw i el llst D Bi o the state. g ne R iv B er M E R C E R ear B During 2007 and 2008, the Watershed Association’s roo R C O U N T Y k ocky Bentley Watershed Ambassador performed biological and visual Brook stream assessments in the Royce Brook subwatershed. Brook The Royce Brook subwatershed contains portions of 0 1 2 3 4 M O N M O U T H sediment are washed into our streams, instead of percolating Hillsborough Township and Manville Borough in the Miles C O U N T Y northern part of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed10/2008 Pro je ct: RoyceBrookLocation.mxdinto the soil. (see map). In addition to monitoring, the Ambassadors play Biological assessments found a moderate level of stream another important role in improving watershed health impairment, meaning insects and crustaceans that need by educating students and residents on actions we can clean water are declining. Visual assessments pinpoint a take to reduce pollution. These include using the proper lack of streamside vegetation as one possible cause of this amount of fertilizers, reducing pesticide use, and cleaning impairment. Native streamside vegetation is important up after pets. To learn more about what you can do, visit to provide shade, limit erosion by holding soil in our Web site at www.thewatershed.org and click on place, and absorb pollutants before stormwater “Become River-Friendly!” enters streams. StreamWatch is made possible with the generous support of Janssen, the In many areas, the streamside vegetation Mary Owen Borden Foundation and the New Jersey Water Supply Authority. consisted of mowed lawns. Mowed lawns do not provide shade and increase the Royce Brook Subwatershed Scorecard chance of pollutants, such as fertilizers AMOUNT OF IMPERVIOUS COVER .................................................................. and pesticides, entering the stream. NITROGEN POLLUTION .................................................................................... There were also many new developments PHOSPHORUS POLLUTION .............................................................................. occurring throughout the subwatershed. AQUATIC LIFE ............................................................................... New development increases the amount LOSS OF STREAM-SIDE HABITAT..................................................................... of impervious cover, which increases the rate at which water flows over land and RANKINGS Good Fair Poor enters streams. This in turn can increase * Rankings based on data from NJ DEP Land Use/Land Cover flyover flooding and erosion meaning pollutants reports and Watershed Association data and scientific methodologies. such as pet waste, fertilizer, motor oil and Winter 2008–09 www.thewatershed.org 3 COMMUNITY ACTION StreamWatch Data Detect Change in West Windsor Water Quality This summer StreamWatch “It likely had been leaking before it broke (although the Volunteer Andrew Kulley odor was not strong). I suspect that a sewerage leak would noticed that his water samples account for the anomalous results I observed,” Andrew noted. at North Post Road on Duck Pond Run in West Windsor were yielding Fortunately, after repairs to the pipe and a heavy rain, the unusual results. Nitrates were high nitrate and oxygen levels are once again consistent with the and dissolved oxygen was low relative rest of Duck Pond Run. to readings at other Duck Pond Run locations. “It likely had been leaking before it broke StreamWatcher (although the odor was not strong). Andrew Kulley Andrew reviewed the results with I suspect that a sewerage leak his colleagues on the West Windsor would account for the anomalous Environmental Commission, and they discussed possible results I observed.” causes for the unusual readings, including the possibility of sewage leaking from some source and fertilizer run-off.
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