Environment

Chuck Martin, a member of the Trails Advisory Committee, describes the demonstration plot program to the Environmental Commission on May 16. The Trails Advisory Committee wants to know more about the township’s native grasslands and is looking to the Open Space Advisory Committee for help. The Trails Committee wants to re-establish 10 “demonstration plots” at the Negri Nepote Grasslands Preservation …

Tara Kenyon, the township’s Open Space Consultant, describes the grant program to the Open Space Advisory Committee at its April 19 meeting. The Township is about to embark on a year-long study of data from a variety of sources to identify the main health and health equity issues facing residents. Assisting the Township will be Sustainable Jersey, which has awarded …

Franklin Township Environmental Commission members Stan Jaracz and Robin Suydam at the Mile Run cleanup on April 9. Volunteers from a number of environmental organizations within and without Franklin Township gathered at Mile Run on Hamilton Street April 9 to give the creek a sprucing up. The waterway lies at the border of Franklin and New Brunswick. The effort was …

Steppingstone designed by Chuck Martin, which the Trails Advisory Committee hopes will help hikers cross streams across several trails. The township’s Trails Advisory Committee wants to make it easier for hikers to cross some of the streams that bisect several trails. But to do so, they’ll have to get the OK from Township manager Robert Vornlocker, and make sure there …

Township Girl Scout Grace Glynn won approval from the Committee for her Sensory Trail idea. A township Girl Scout received the Open Space Advisory Committee’s go-ahead for a project at Middlebush Park at its January 18 meeting. The Scout, Grace Glynn, a Scout with Troop 60607, wants to do the project in furtherance of her quest for the Scouts’ Gold …

Township Manager Robert Vornlocker said a letter is going out to residents, explaining the issue. (File Photo). News that low pH levels were found in the township water supply earlier this year should not be a cause of concern for residents, township officials said on December 10. That’s because the potential effects of low pH in water pipes were not …

Fearing time is running out to stem the growth of more invasive species in two of the township’s grassland preserves, the Trails Advisory Committee on December 8 resolved to ask the Open Space Advisory Committee to recommend an herbicide spraying program. The recommendation would go to the Township Council. Money to pay for the program, if the Council approves it, …

An unusually warm fall has prompted township officials to extend the annual leaf collection program by one week. Residents who live in Zone 1 will have their final pickup during the week of December 20, and residents who live in Zone 2 will have their final pickup the week of December 13. Township bags are no longer required for the …

The Center School executive director Ronald Rinaldi speaks to the Township Council during the November 23 virtual meeting. The annual Environmental Steward Awards were distributed during the November 23 Township Council meeting. Presented by the township Environmental Commission, the awards are given to an organization or business and an individual that show leadership in environmental issues. This year’s awardees were …

Township open space consultant Tara Kenyon told the Committee about the options available to internally maintain the grassland preserves. Purchases the township will have to make to internally manage the two grasslands preserves were discussed at the October 19 Open Space Advisory Committee meeting. The preserves – Negri Nepote and John Clyde Memorial – need to be protected from invasive …