Events & Activities
It's that time again! Fall Family Fun
Save the date & join us! This year we're setting up at the Riegelsville Public Library instead of our usual spot at Fry's Run Park. Enjoy the library's flea market along with all of our usual activities. Interested folks are welcome to join us at the park at 11 a.m. for a "stream life" tour.
Monthly meetings - 1st Tuesdays
We meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Williams Township Community Center.
FRWA presents to Twp elementary students
FRWA presents to Twp elementary students
In May, members of FRWA presented to Williams Township elementary school 4th-graders on watersheds and their importance. The kids were great and staff all very welcoming. Thanks to everyone in our group that helped make it happen. And huge thanks to teacher Rayanne Parry for everything from helping to open the door to tech support!
Other events this season included our usual trash pickup (29 bags, plus tires and the usual variety of junk) and a day at the township rec camp, teaching the kids about macrointervertebrates and their role in healthy streams and helping the kids create paintings of some of their favorite things about nature.
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PLANTING DAYS ENHANCE FRY'S RUN BUFFER ZONE
Just two years ago, a handful of intrepid FRWA volunteers helped Northampton County Parks & Rec’s Jim Wilson to plant about 60 container trees and shrubs available thanks to a grant secured by Wildlands Conservancy. That was was our fourth planting at the park since 2015.
Eight years after our first planting, some of the sycamores, river birches and oaks are 30 feet tall and we've got a beautiful young woods, creating an effective stream side buffer from the creek upland into the lower meadow at the park. The buffer zone helps mitigate flooding and erosion when stormwaters come through.
By definition, a riparian buffer is a vegetated “buffer-strip” near a stream, which helps to shade and partially protect the stream from the impact of adjacent urban, industrial or agricultural land use. It plays a key role in increasing water quality in associated streams, rivers and lakes and provides a greatly enhanced and varied habitat for wildlife.
Fry's Run is famously "flashy". In recent years, the buffer zone has held up well through named and unnamed storms creating record flood levels.
When the last plantings were young and flooded, FRWA volunteers and NorCo Parks staff salvaged and staked back upright more than 100 young trees that had been flattened. Not a one was lost, however—testament to the staying power of well-rooted trees.