Town of Lloyd Environmental Conservation Council

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The ECC is a town-appointed council that advises the Town of Lloyd on the preservation, development, and use of Lloyd's natural resources.

The ECC:
--provides council to the town of Lloyd on environmental threats and opportunities
--liaisons with other environmental groups in region
--promotes environmental education
--manages and improves the Black Creek Water Trail
--honors individuals and institutions for environmental contributions
--serves as a forum where townspeople can communicate environmental concerns or possibilities.

10/24/2026

We were a small group this morning, but did a lot of cleanup. It was a gorgeous morning to hike the trails and around Berean park.
Trash was minimal, but we filled several buckets with glass from the old bottling dump locations.

10/24/2026

Great blue heron on the recreation pond at Berean Park this morning. About to start circling the pond, clearing leaves from the lower trails, and picking up whatever litter we find.

10/23/2026

Saturday Oct 24 9:30am: Community cleanup at Berean Park

Join ECC volunteers and Scouts as we patrol around the recreation pond and lower trails for garbage. Recreation staff and regular park users keep it pretty clean, but at this time of year we often find some litter that was previously hidden by vegetation during the summer, was more recently left during the shoulder season, or blew out of trash containers.

We are also still finding pieces of glass and ceramic shards from the remnants of an old bottle dump at the west end of the recreation pond, around the red trail and the intersection of the red and white trails. Please take care with dogs and children in this area and let us know if you come across any.

Special thanks to Denise Rhoades in the Highway Department for getting cut resistant gloves for picking up the glass and ceramics, and to Town Board member Mike Guerriero for facilitating the request and delivering the gloves to ECC volunteers.

10/08/2026

FREE Fall Shred Event, Saturday, November 7, 2026, 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Town Hall Parking Lot (Behind 12 Church Street, Highland, NY 12528)

Acceptable Items for our Community Shred Event are as follows:

Paper
File Folders
Checkbooks
Staples and Paper Clips
Small Quantities of Plastics (ID Cards and Credit Cards)
Unacceptable Items for Community Shred Event are the following

No Hard Drives
No CDs/DVDs
No X-Rays
No Batteries
No Electronics
No Hazardous Materials
No Syringes/Needles
No Heavy Objects such as Nuts, Bolts, Metal Plates

In accordance with the spirit of providing this service to every in our community, please limit items for shredding to 3 standard paper storage boxes or garbage bags.

09/18/2026

The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency (UCRRA) has partnered with Green Sheen Paint, the Town of Shawangunk, and Wallkill Central School District to host a special one-day-only paint recycling event on Saturday, October 10, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Wallkill High School (90 Robinson Dr, Wallkill, NY).

This FREE community paint collection event is open to all NYS households and businesses. All collected paint will be transported to GreenSheen’s processing facilities to be re-engineered into premium recycled paint products, helping to promote proper disposal and keep paint products out of the landfill.

Appointments are required. Please reserve a 15-minute arrival window at https://circular.eco/event/wallkill

08/06/2026

The Empire State Trail didn't just come into being on its own, nor was it always a project of NYS Parks. It took dedicated groups of volunteers and advocates working with local communities, granting agencies, and non-profits to raise funds to establish many local sections along the route like the HVRT. Those local volunteers and orgs often end up becoming the trail's stewards as well, like the Hudson Valley Rail Trail Association. While the health and non-motorized transportation benefits to communities justify the cost of these projects alone, what many don't realize are the economic benefits to the region.

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Hundreds of cyclists from 26 states turned the SUNY Ulster campus into an overnight waypoint on Wednesday, as they make their way from Albany to New York City along the Empire State Trail.

07/31/2026

Scanning Black Creek via drone for Asian Water Chestnut just upstream from Chodikee Lake. Tomorrow (Saturday, 8/1) we will be pulling these invasive aquatic plants from an infestation we've been monitoring in the Southwest portion of the lake, near the inlet from Black Creek. However, smaller infestations are present in the creek leading into Chodikee, and there may be others downstream. Tomorrow will be our 2nd and last visit this season, before the seeds begin to fall off of the plants.

07/29/2026

07/28/2026

Riverkeeper staff, volunteers, and Town of Lloyd ECC volunteers received training at Chodikee Lake last month from the Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP), a volunteer lake monitoring program run by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and the NYS Federation of Lake Associations, Inc. (NYSFOLA) since 1985. For more information see https://nysfola.org/what-is-cslap/

As the NYSFOLA member association for Chodikee Lake, Riverkeeper joins nearly 200 NYSFOLA members who currently participate in CSLAP monitoring throughout the state from June through September. Given the increase in Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in recent years on Chodikee Lake and in other water bodies and streams throughout the region, it's important that we monitor conditions to better understand the conditions in which HABs occur, prevent the public's exposure to HABs, and to make efforts to reduce their occurrence.

07/28/2026

If you own or manage a property located along a stream, like the Twaalfskill or the Black Creek, you can apply for free native trees to plant near the stream. This helps protect water quality, create fish and wildlife habitat, and reduce erosion and flooding.

Visit Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs for eligibility requirements and application instructions. Submit your application by August 1, 2026 for a planting in October 2026.

The Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs Program helps to protect and restore streamside buffers. he program offers free native trees and shrubs for qualifying planting projects along the tributary streams (Tribs) in the Hudson River Estuary Grant boundary.

Address

Highland, NY
12528

Telephone

(845) 691-2144

Website

http://townoflloyd.com/environmental-conservation-council

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