Wyncote/Glenside
The Wyncote/Glenside Model Neighborhood Project is a program for neighborhood beautification, environmental education, and community inspiration that centers on clean water issues. TTF is collaborating with neighborhood schools and community groups to create opportunities for workshops, classes, tours, volunteer stewardship activities, new plantings, educational signs and landscaping projects that help manage stormwater runoff, connect residents to their local waterway, and beautify the neighborhood while raising awareness about watershed issues.
Current projects in the Wyncote/Glenside Model Neighborhood include:
Location
This Model Neighborhood spans both the Wyncote and Glenside neighborhoods. Cedarbrook Middle School, Glenside Elementary School and Arcadia University are just a few of the participating institutions. Among our recent projects are ethical electronics recycling drives, a campus rain garden installation and an extensive creekside native planting project. (Click on the green pinpoints in the map below to see stormwater management projects in the neighborhood!)
Get Involved!
Every single neighborhood resident stands to benefit from this community-wide effort, and everyone can participate! With your input, the Wyncote/Glenside Model Neighborhood has the potential to gain local, or even national, recognition for community leadership, and social, economic and environmental benefits to the community.
Attend an event in your Model Neighborhood!
Read all Wyncote/Glenside Model Neighborhood blog posts here!
For more ways to get involved, write, email or call:
Sarah RobbGrieco, Executive Director
Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership
One Awbury Road
Awbury Arboretum
Philadelphia, PA 19138
215.208.1613
info@ttfwatershed.org
Partners:
Arcadia University
Arcadia University Biology Club
Arcadia University Environmental Club
Cedarbrook Middle School
Cheltenham Township’s Environmental Advisory Council
Christopher Swain’s TOXTOUR
Delaware Valley Earth Force
Glenside Elementary School
Glenside Elementary School’s Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO)
Montgomery County Conservation District
NAM Planning & Design, LLC
Philadelphia Water Department
