Announcements

• Welcome Jim Waltman, SBMWA's New Executive Director

• SBWA Removes Over 2 Tons of Trash at Annual Clean-Up

• Spruce Run Initiative wins Hermia Lechner Award

• TPC at Jasna Polana receives River Friendly Golf Course Certification

Upcoming Events

• SBMWA's Butterfly Festival, August 13, 2005

• National Land Conservation Conference, October 14-17, 2005

• NJ-AWRA Fall Conference: New Jersey Flood Plain Management - Past, Present and Future, November 2, 2005

• Mid-Atlantic Chapters of AWRA, Regional Conference coming in 2006

New Funding

• The Basin will benefit from two new 319(h) Grants

• Raritan Basin receives over $30,000 in ESP Grants 

Watershed Protection and Improvement Projects

• Riparian Buffer Planted at Old Farm Road, Union Township, Hunterdon County

• Study Finds Rocky Run No Longer Impaired by Fecal Coliform

• NJWSA Enhances Buffers at Spruce Run Reservoir

• Three Highlands Properties Preserved to Protect Spruce Run Watershed

• Middle School Students Plant Rain Garden to Protect Local Stream

Highlands Organizations

• NJWSA to Provide Technical and Planning Assistance to NJ Highlands Council

• Raritan Highlands Wastewater Management Planning Project will Develop Model Ordinance Language on “Net Density” Zoning, and Model Master Plan Guidance on Subwatershed Budgets and Steep Slopes.

• Raritan Highlands Compact to focus on Protecting Water Resources 

Resources

• Hunterdon County Environmental Toolbox Committee Completes First Round of Model Ordinances and Master Plan Guidance Documents

• Report Proposes Legislative Changes to Authorize Stormwater Utilities and Utility Authorities in New Jersey

Recent Seminars

• FEMA's GIS-based Program to Update Flood Hazard Maps

• Community Rating System Rewards Communities that Reduce Flood Risks

• Grasslands of our Watershed

To submit an article for the next Basin Bulletin, contact

Michelle Segal, New Jersey Water Supply Authority