The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, in affiliation with the Philadelphia Water Department, Pennypack Environmental Center and Bucks County Conservation District, are hosting two workshops in June entitled “Property Management for Cleaner Streams.”

One workshop will take place on June 8 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Northampton Township Building, 55 Township Road, Richboro, Pa. The other convenes on June 21 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Pennypack Environmental Center in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park.

Representatives from schools, corporations, businesses, municipalities and non-profit organizations are welcome to attend to learn about available programs to help them protect drinking water.

These programs are designed to facilitate projects such as creating native meadows, enhancing riparian buffers, educating the public about stormwater, implementing “responsible-housekeeping” practices and more. Funding for projects is available and priority will be given to organizations represented at the workshop.

Those seeking to register should do so by June 2 and June 16 respectively. Meeting this deadline entitles registrants to a free native plant. One attendee will also win a rain barrel for use in reducing stormwater-runoff pollution. Refreshments will be served.

An additional sponsor for Property Management for Cleaner Streams is the Department of Environmental Protection.

For further details and to register, please contact Lisa Wool, program director for the Partnership, at 800-445-4935, extension 105.

For more information, visit the Delaware Estuary Partnership website.

5/26/2006