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2022 Chloride Blitzes show extreme spikes in salt levels
Suburban runoff is one of the biggest challenges to the health and vitality of the TTF watershed. Runoff is rainwater that flows off of roofs and roads, where it ends up in our creeks, leading to flooding and erosion. When salt is applied to roads in the wintertime, the impact on the health of our…
Learning to Ride A Bike Opens Doors to New Opportunities
Guest Blog by Siani Colon, TCP (Tacony Creek Park) Keeper “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein in a letter he wrote to his son in 1930. Though his words remain true, that doesn’t mean keeping your balance on either life…
2023 Community Service Get-Together features special guests: Garfield Refining & Temple Society of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Every year, we host a Community Service Get-Together to share the many ways in which volunteers can get involved with TTF, and to share ideas amongst peers. On Thursday, February 16, leaders from organizations, schools, and businesses attended the online get-together. If you missed the…
Say hello to our Winter 2023 Intern, Quinzel!
This blog is written by our first intern of 2023, Quinzel Miller Jr. We are so excited to welcome him to the TTF team! Hi, TTF watershed family; my name is Quinzel Miller Jr, and I am a senior at Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School in Philadelphia. During my internship with TTF, I hope to…
Work with us to care for your park! Job Opening: Seasonal Maintenance Attendant for Tacony Creek Park
SEASONAL MAINTENANCE ATTENDANT (SMA) The Seasonal Maintenance Attendant is a 6-month position, at 37.5 hours a week. It includes an hourly pay of $14.25. SMA Duties: Includes turf and grounds maintenance work: maintaining and improving the park Pick up/gather litter and trash in the park; empty trash cans; deliver trash to a central…
Job Posting: Environmental Educator
Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership 4500 Worth Street Philadelphia, PA 19124 Part-Time, Salary: $25 per hour Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) is an environmental non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and restore the health and vitality of our watershed by collaborating with our municipalities and leading our communities in education, stewardship, restoration, and advocacy. Across our watershed…
70+ Volunteers Honor MLK Day in Tacony Creek Park with TTF
Every year, watershed residents and organizations from across the region contact us to ask how they can participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and improve our watershed. This year, this support was especially helpful as we were faced with the challenge of removing hundreds of tires dumped in Tacony Creek Park…
Sanchez and Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership secure $175K grant
This blog is a repost from PAHouse.com. See the original news release here. Rep. Ben Sanchez153rd District / Montgomery County Sanchez and Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership secure $175K grant Rep. Ben Sanchez January 9, 2023 | 4:34 PM ABINGTON, Jan. 9 – State Rep. Ben Sanchez, D-Montgomery, today announced that the local conservation group Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership has been awarded…
Walk with Me Leaders needed in Tacony Creek Park!
We are seeking Walk with Me leaders to lead daily walking groups in Tacony Creek Park! These individuals are not just walking leaders, they are “Trail Ambassadors.” We currently provide a walk each Saturday…neighbors and park users have told us that they’d like to walk regularly on weekdays and Sundays, including in the afternoon. Our…
What do you and your family like to do in Tacony Creek Park?
What kind of programs would you and your family like to see in Tacony Creek Park? Share your thoughts & receive a FREE GIFT! ¿Qué tipo de programas les gustaría ver a usted y su familia en Tacony Creek Park? ¡Comparte tus pensamientos y recibe un REGALO GRATIS! TTF offers a variety of free programming…
It’s a Wrap on 2022! TTF Staff Highlights & 2023 Goals
As 2022 came to a close, the TTF team reflected on a productive, fun year. Staff have worked tirelessly and experienced some amazing accomplishments worth celebrating. Here our are our personal 2022 highlights and hopes for next year! Malcolm Bundy, Philadelphia Community Organizer “My 2022 highlight was hosting the large Storm Drain Marking event with…
Stream Smart brings healthier creeks to homes & communities!
As 2022 comes to a close, so will the multi-year Stream Smart Program funded through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and coordinated by our partner, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. This collaborative effort began in the spring of 2019 across suburban Philadelphia to engage residents with their watershed and tackle stormwater runoff from the largest…
Our 2022 Volunteers!
Every year, we work with enthusiastic, hard-working volunteers who lend a hand to collect trash (a short-term but never ending challenge) and plant trees (a long-term investment in the future of our neighborhoods and planet). Individuals and groups from schools and businesses join us to get this work done! In 2022, we hosted 53 volunteer…
Leaving a Positive Mark on our watershed
Did you know that the part of our watershed in Philadelphia has roughly 12,000 storm drains that flow into the Tacony Creek, many of which are still unmarked? Our Montgomery County communities have storm drains too — these drains flow into the Tookany! With the help of dedicated community members, we have been working hard…
The Board Perspective: Highlights from TTF Board Co-Presidents, Susan Myerov & Sara Poindexter
Highlights from Board Co-Presidents By Susan Myerov, Abington Township Environmental Advisory Council and Senior Program Director, PA Environmental Council One of the great pleasures I have being a board member of TTF is the opportunity to participate in the various programs and events we host over the year. 2022 was a year that marked a…
Friendsgiving Dinner Brings Tacony Creek Park Community Together
By Siani Colon, TCP Keeper We are so proud to share this Guest Blog by Siani Colon. Siani is an active TCP Keeper and the recipient of our 2021 Watershed Milestones Friend of the Watershed Award. As 2022 comes to close, the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) celebrated the wins of the past year and gave…
Touring and reflecting at TTF watershed restoration sites
TTF’s mission is to connect our communities to their creeks and work with them to improve creek health. One of our engagement strategies is to continually connect our communities to ongoing creek restoration efforts. My favorite tool is hosting tours to showcase our restoration sites. The change you can see at one site, from when…
Seeking an environmental internship in Philly? Join the TTF team!
TTF has built a community of people who care about the health of our creeks and open spaces. We simply couldn’t do our work without their passion and energy. Our interns have been essential to deepening our impact. Over 50 enthusiastic, diligent young volunteers have passed through our doors over the years. We take our…
Leave the Leaves for Understory Habitats
This blog is a repost from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. View the original post here. Red, orange, yellow, gold, brown – every autumn, the canopies of the Northeast transform into a picturesque glory of color. Once they fall though, our opinions of these very same leaves may quickly change. Are they yard…
Working Together to Remove Hundreds of Tires from Tacony Creek Park
Faced with the dumping of hundreds of tires below Whitaker Avenue and along the Tacony Creek Park Trail in early October, partners Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, United By Blue, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR), Philadelphia Water Department, and TTF shared resources and volunteers to remove the tires as quickly and sustainably as possible during two cleanup…