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 […]
Tag: Storm Drain
Mariana Bracetti students improve their watershed!
Over 120 Mariana Bracetti Charter School fourth graders and teachers participated in a storm drain marking and clean-up event around the Tacony Creek Park gateway at Bingham & E. Ashdale […]
Juniata Park: Clean, Green, Beautiful!
We have lots of connections to Juniata Park! There’s a busy gateway to Tacony Creek Park at the intersection of I Street and Ramona Avenue, which is right around the […]
MLK Day strengthens our watershed community from Abington to Philadelphia
We had another successful Martin Luther King Day! Temperatures below zero didn’t stop us from working hand in hand with our communities on the 24th Annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King […]
Leave a Mark in Your Watershed
Are you looking for a fun environmental activity for your group? Connect people to their creeks by marking storm drains to keep pollution out of our waterways! We’re partnering with Primex Garden […]
Leave a Mark in Your Watershed
Are you looking for a fun environmental activity for your group? Connect people to their creeks by marking storm drains to keep pollution out of our waterways! We’re partnering with Primex Garden […]
Leave a Mark in your Watershed
Community leaders, are you looking for a fun environmental activity for your group? Connect people to their creeks by marking storm drains to keep pollution out of our waterways! Join us […]
Leave a Mark in your Watershed
Community leaders, are you looking for a fun environmental activity for your group? Connect people to their creeks by marking storm drains to keep pollution out of our waterways! Join us […]
TTF tackles trash in our neighborhoods…and creeks
By Robin Irizarry, Philadelphia Watershed Coordinator In 2012, TTF established the Trash Task Force to address trash and illegal dumping in our creeks. The Task Force includes representatives of key municipal […]
Storm Drain Marking with Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory
by Marcus Paul, Community Organizer TTF’s Philly Team hosted a Storm Drain Marking event with the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory and students in their RiverGuides program on Friday, October 14th. We […]
Storm drain markers & duck boxes? Volunteers love Tacony Creek & Park
It was windy and chilly, but that didn’t stop over fifty volunteers from loving Tacony Creek Park on Love Your Park Day on Saturday, November 14. We started with a […]
Cheltenham is Clean Water Savvy!
“What’s Your Clean Water Savvy?” was the theme of a survey of Cheltenham residents completed over the past several months. The survey was a cooperative effort of the Township (using an […]
Go Navy! Meet some new local Watershed Heroes
It was all about WATER at the Naval Support Activity Philadelphia on November 19! First, we hosted a Lunch & Learn to kick off a day filled with watershed activities! We […]
Hackley School Volunteers Lend a Hand Once Again!
The Olney Rain Garden got some tender loving care from volunteers all the way from New York! For the past few years, the Hackley School — a private college preparatory school […]
North 5th Street YPN Community Champions = Watershed Heroes
By: Jason Rodriguez, North 5th Street Revitalization Project/Philadelphia Youth Network Intern Did you know there are two types of sewers running through the City of Philadelphia?! And get this: native […]
Green City Teachers Get Up Close & Personal with TTF Watershed Ed Tools
In late June, TTF Community Watershed Specialist Alex Cooper presented watershed education tools as part of a Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) Green City Teachers workshop at Kelly Elementary School in […]
Ohio to Philadelphia: OVYM Builds Community with TTF
The Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (OVYM) Teen Group Service Trip joined TTF last week for a storm drain marking and clean-up event at the Tacony Creek Park gateway at Rorer Street […]
Woot Woot! Celebrating a Year of TTF Watershed Growth
TTF presented our successful third annual Watershed Milestones Award Ceremony & Reception on May 21. Hosted for the first time in our own watershed at the Juniata Golf Club, this […]
Aloha?? from Tacony Creek Park
While you were celebrating our nation’s independence by eating hot dogs during the July 4th weekend, TTF was working with students from the University of Hawaii at Hilo to improve […]
Volunteers of all ages clean up Tacony Creek Park
TTF kicked off our countdown to Healthy Trails 5k Run/Walk coming up on April 27 by hosting a cleanup event at Friends Hospital last Saturday. We’re on a mission to work […]
Jenkintown Storm Drain Marking With The Hackley School
Over 50 seventh grade students from the Hackley School joined TTF for a Green Apple Day of Service to mark storm drains in Jenkintown, one of our watershed communities on […]
Sightlines Employees Mark Jenkintown Storm Drains!
A sunny, dry afternoon provided the perfect time to do a little something different from the day-to-day routine for Sightlines LLC in Jenkintown, PA this Thursday. Ten employees from their […]
Storm Drain Marking in Wyncote
TTF recently led fifteen Arcadia University students in marking over twenty storm drains in Wyncote in Cheltenham Township. These storm drain markers serve to remind people that our storm drains […]