Newtown Creek Coalition, Newtown PA

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The Newtown Creek Coalition was established in 2006 and has staged creek cleanups, public visioning meetings and has overseen planning efforts or the creek The NCC is a non-profit with a mission to improve, protect and preserve the creek.

07/28/2024

The Newtown Creek Coalition will have the monthly meeting at the Newtown Borough hall on August 10 at 10 AM.
Please come and join us.

Hi Everyone, The Newtown Crek Cleanup that was scheduled for Saturday, April 16 has been cancelled. Stay tuned as we mi...
04/11/2022

Hi Everyone, The Newtown Crek Cleanup that was scheduled for Saturday, April 16 has been cancelled. Stay tuned as we might be having one scheduled for April 23 instead.

NEWTOWN CREEK COALITION CLEAN UP SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2022 9:00 AM - 12:00 PMRAIN DATE APRIL 23, 2022 9:00 AM - 12:00...
01/16/2022

NEWTOWN CREEK COALITION CLEAN UP

SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2022 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
RAIN DATE APRIL 23, 2022 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Volunteers will meet at 9:00 AM at Centre Ave Bridge Newtown

Dress in a long-sleeved shirt and jeans, grab your work gloves, and wear heavy boots to help in the Creek!
Please spread the word to your friends!!!

The Newtown Creek Coalition is a nonprofit community partnership, formed in 2006 to coordinate the efforts of residents, businesses, and Borough and Township groups, with an interest in the future of Newtown Creek.

Children under 18 years of age are required to have a parent with them to sign the waiver form.

Please visit our Website at http://www.newtowncreekcoalition.org

Recently, members of the Newtown Creek Coalition were able to plant 100 plants and shrubs and do some cleanup at the New...
11/07/2021

Recently, members of the Newtown Creek Coalition were able to plant 100 plants and shrubs and do some cleanup at the Newtown Common. Special thanks to Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve for providing the plants and shrubs to Newtown Borough. Nancy Minich assisted the NCC with obtaining the grant and provided guidance during the plantings.

04/19/2021

Thank you everyone for liking our page!!! Hoping to be able to start NCC activities back up soon. Enjoy the Spring weather!

12/25/2019

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Everyone!!!

NEWTOWN CREEK COALITION CLEAN UP A section of the Newtown Creek got some tender loving care Saturday morning and about a...
10/27/2019

NEWTOWN CREEK COALITION CLEAN UP
A section of the Newtown Creek got some tender loving care Saturday morning and about a dozen volunteers got to enjoy a beautiful autumn morning while giving back to the environment.
A fall cleanup, organized by the Newtown Creek Coalition, focused on a portion of the creek located behind Penn Community Bank and in around a series of stone abutments that once supported a trolley bridge over the creek.
Members of the coalition, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the creek, recently asked the Newtown Township Board of Supervisors to support a project that envisions using those same abutments to support a pedestrian bridge that would link Frost Lane in the borough with Sycamore Street in the township.
Veteran creek volunteers, including Sue Sutton, Councilwoman Julia Woldorf, Mike Sellers and Ted Schmidt were joined by Newtown Township Supervisor Dennis Fisher, local attorney Jerry Shankman and others who helped remove fallen branches and trees, which build up in and around the base of the stone abutments and cause the creek to dam.
Cleanup organizer Mike Sellers said the coalition chose this site for two
reasons, the first because it’s a “neglected area. Thiswas a great opportunity to do something here, particularly with clearing trees and tree limbs,” he said.
But the second was to clear out that area and begin to visualize exactly what we’re talking about with the old trolley bridge and to begin thinking about what could be done with it in the future in terms of pedestrian access,” he said. “It gets borough and township residents thinking about what this could be in the future.”
Sellers extended his thanks to local developer Allan Smith for granting access to the property for a dumpster and the right of way to the old trolley bridge.
He also thanked Leck Waste Disposal for providing the dumpster and DC Jefferson Landscaping for cutting up a number of fallen trees.

10/16/2019

Fall Clean-Up of Newtown Creek

SATURDAY October 19 9:00 AM – Noon (no rain date)

Behind Penn Community Bank
295 N. Sycamore St., Newtown

Bring your Wading Boots if you have them !!!!

Wear your long-sleeved shirt and jeans, grab your work gloves,
and put on heavy boots to help clean the Creek!

Children under 18 years of age must have a supervising adult
and waiver forms signed by a parent.

Newtown Creek Coalition wishes to thank:

Leck Waste Services for dumpster and debris hauling
D C Jefferson Landscaping for professional brush cutting
Allan Smith for site access, parking, and dumpster location

Please spread the word to your friends!!!

10/16/2019

Fall Creek Clean Up October 19 Saturday 9AM - 12 PM Behind Penn Community Bank 295 N Sycamore St
Please join us!!!

08/01/2019

Newtown Borough Project Helps Meet
Stormwater Requirements
A small “pocket” park in Newtown Borough, Bucks County, has become a lot more than a lawn after a years-long
project to revitalize it, restore a stream bank, and help meet
federal stormwater requirements. Julia W. Woldorf, Newtown
Borough Council member and president of Newtown
Creek Coalition (NCC), got the Newtown Common project
going on behalf of the borough of 2,300 residents. She explained that the 0.18 acre park is the last remaining piece of the original 43-acre common that was laid out by PA founder, William Penn. “The park has historic as well as environmental value,” Woldorf said. In April 2014, NCC received a grant for its plans for Newtown Common Park but didn’t break ground until April 2018. During those years, “prep work” was done for the construction that only took six months to complete.
Prior to the project, the common at the end of Greene Street
was “just basically a lawn with plantings.” Now it includes a
porous paving patio, benches, solar lighting, trash cans,
native plantings, rain gardens, educational signage, and bollards for bike parking. The upgrades weren’t just to
make the area more attractive. They also are helping the
borough meet stormwater regulations with the bulk of the
money for the project going to engineering and stream bank
refurbishment. The project included restoring 100 linear feet of Newtown Creek’s bank, which is projected to reduce sediment entering the water by 4,500 pounds/year. The porous pavement, rain gardens, and other features in the park
are filtering runoff and rain water, reducing the amount of
phosphorus and nitrogen that go into the creek. Boulders were added to the stream bank for people to use to reach the shallow creek and not disturbed the bank or native plants.
Newtown received a matching grant of $150,000 from the Community Conservation Partnership Program administered by the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. The
borough’s 50 percent match came from $224,000 given to Newtown from the county. The project also received monies from state-wide and local organizations.

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