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Wissahickon Creek Cleanup Coming April 28

The Friends of the Wissahickon and the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association are teaming up.

The Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW) and the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) are teaming up to clean the Wissahickon Creek April 28.

This spring marks the 42nd anniversary of the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association’s annual Creek Cleanup and is the third year that FOW has teamed up with WVWA to clean all 21 miles of the creek. Volunteers will clean the creek, the surrounding trails and its tributaries.

The volunteers will be assigned to sections of the creek to collect anything from plastic bags and swing sets to mattresses and tires.

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Following the clean up, all volunteers are will be invited WVWA’s Talkin’ Trash picnic in its new location at the Militia Hill Pavilion in Fort Washington State Park, which can be accessed by Militia Hill Road or Joshua Road.

To work with the  in Philadelphia, meet at the pavilion along Forbidden Drive, which is a short distance south of the intersection of Forbidden Drive and Northwestern Avenue. Volunteers will help clean up along the creek and along nearby areas of the park and neighborhood.

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To help out in Montgomery County, all volunteers must be pre-assigned a section of the Wissahickon Creek or a tributary to clean; sites range from Lansdale to Flourtown. You can contact WVWA Director of Stewardship Bob Adams at 215-646-8866 ext. 14 or at bob@wvwa.org.

You can register to volunteer on the FOW website, and you can indicate if you plan to attend the picnic. Contact Dan Mercer with questions at 215-247-0417 x 107 or at mercer@fow.org.

Merck and Dow are also sponsoring the event.


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