Allentown Earth Day April 20, 2024
Seven LLWS put on a great public display at Saturday's Allentown Earth Day event. With a plastics in watershed theme, visitors got to learn the problems caused by plastic pollution, see microplastics filtered from our water, sort different types of plastics to learn what can be recycled, and consider alternative to plastics. Visitors got a look at Tyrone, our mascot, and earned a tattoo through their participation. Even the mayor stopped by to chat!
March 24, 2024 - Little Lehigh Cleanup near fish hatchery, Allentown
A thankfully dry Sunday brought out 35 volunteers, including several families, to clear litter and debris from the Little Lehigh Floodplain upstream and downstream of Fish Hatchery Road. Approximately 60 large bags of trash, tires, and construction debris was collected filling two dump trucks, totalling 1,500 pounds of waste. All of us were amazed by the quantity of food and drink trash found adjacent to Fish Hatchery and Keystone Roads. If any readers have suggestions for educational programs that we can put on aimed at reducing litter, please use contact for with suggestions. We are open to ideas. Thanks to all volunteers, especially the first timers. Thank you, City of Allentown for supplying bags, pickers, staff, and hauling away the debris.
March 16, 2024 - Tree Planting at Cedar Creek Parkway, Allentown
A bright Saturday, gathered 17 LLWS volunteers to plant 35 6' tall trees on the banks of Cedar Creek in Allentown. Thank you to Trout Unlimited who provided grant moneys to buy the larger tress and planting supplies and to City of Allentown who provided employees and equipment to dig holes and provided tubes and mulch. See photos below of all those who made the work light.
The willow trees that are on banks of Cedar Creek in CC park are getting old and dying. The new trees will provide Creek side forest in years to come. We will need help with some Tree watering (near intersection of Park Ave and Cedar Crest). Contact us if you would be willing to assist.
Young Trees need tubes to protect them from deer and TLC to help them survive drought and floods in their first five years.
