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VOLUNTEER

Get involved with the Greater Culver Lake Watershed! There are currently many ways to become a participant:

  • Learn about the Culver Brook Preserve and become a tour guide.
  • Discover the native plants in the Rain Garden and add them to your home garden.
  • Explore the benefits of Rain Gardens and help maintain our demonstration project.
  • Help maintain the website.
  • Contribute to our quarterly newsletter.
  • Help us with event planning, or partnership and development.
  • Join our Board.
  • Help create educational laboratories and learning projects.

Whatever your talents, we can put them to work!  Please sign up below to get involved.

LEARN

LEARN more about the environment in the Greater Culver Lake Watershed. Start here for resources and educational opportunities.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • The Culver Lake Watershed covers 4,000 acres in Sussex County, NJ.
  • The Greater Culver Lake Watershed, which includes Bear Swamp, Lake Owassa and Culver Lake, is headwaters of the Paulinskill River Watershed, an important tributary of the Delaware River.
  • Culver Brook receives 6 million gallons per day from the Culver Lake Watershed. Co-mingled Owassa and Culver waters flow through the outflow at Culver Lake into Culver Brook.
  • The Culver Lake Watershed is home to 5.5 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
  • A goal of restoring water clarity to the 1950’s level, when Culver Lake was first monitored, can be met by diligent attention to watershed management, education and voluntary effort.
  • It takes 2.47 years to replace all the water in Culver Lake.
  • Culver and Owassa Lakes and the surrounding watershed fall into the protected Delaware Basin.

YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS

The Greater Culver Lake Watershed Conservation Foundation (GCLWCF) relies solely on private tax-deductible donations from individuals, families, businesses and foundations to fund its environmental advocacy programs.
Your generosity will ensure continuity of the water quality efforts not only at Culver Lake and Lake Owassa but also throughout the watershed area today, tomorrow, and in the years to come.
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Photo credits:
Chapel in snow by Steve Okeson; Rain Gardern Weeding by Wallkill River Watershed Management Group.