Rusty Spinner
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Come on out and help our East Jersey TU chapter with the removal of a stone weir just upstream of the Glen Gray Road bridge at the Oakland/Mahwah border off route 202.
View attachment 9568View attachment 9568View attachment 9568I would show you pictures, but they are not uploading for some reason(?). We will be lowering this stone weir using pry bars, strong backs and a come a long if needed. In its place (actually upstream about 10 yards or so) we will be building 2 rock deflector weirs to redirect flows off the banks. Work begins at 9 am on Saturday the 10th. Parking is on county park land immediately east of the bridge over the river there and along Glen Gray Road. You can use 55 Glen Gray Road, Mahwah, NJ if using GPS. We will park just beyond that home on the county park property. If you can, please bring gloves, pry bars and double-wheeled wheel barrows. Or just come as you are and we'll put you to work. This "shoaling" of the river over the last decade or so increases, especially as you head downstream into Oakland. Oakland is strongly considering using my river restoration guru, Urbani Fisheries, to restore sections of the river throughout their nearly 5 miles lying within the Borough of Oakland and have requested a formal proposal from them just recently. This river might finally be getting the attention it deserves!
Come help on Saturday, but please PM me if you plan to help as East Jersey TU is buying lunch and wants to have ample water for the volunteers. We can help the river in Mahwah just upstream of where Urbani Fisheries may one day be doing significant river channel restoration work to remove the shoals of larger cobble that have built up and covered much of the pool habitat from recent storm events, all of which is due to excessive development within the watershed.
View attachment 9568View attachment 9568View attachment 9568I would show you pictures, but they are not uploading for some reason(?). We will be lowering this stone weir using pry bars, strong backs and a come a long if needed. In its place (actually upstream about 10 yards or so) we will be building 2 rock deflector weirs to redirect flows off the banks. Work begins at 9 am on Saturday the 10th. Parking is on county park land immediately east of the bridge over the river there and along Glen Gray Road. You can use 55 Glen Gray Road, Mahwah, NJ if using GPS. We will park just beyond that home on the county park property. If you can, please bring gloves, pry bars and double-wheeled wheel barrows. Or just come as you are and we'll put you to work. This "shoaling" of the river over the last decade or so increases, especially as you head downstream into Oakland. Oakland is strongly considering using my river restoration guru, Urbani Fisheries, to restore sections of the river throughout their nearly 5 miles lying within the Borough of Oakland and have requested a formal proposal from them just recently. This river might finally be getting the attention it deserves!
Come help on Saturday, but please PM me if you plan to help as East Jersey TU is buying lunch and wants to have ample water for the volunteers. We can help the river in Mahwah just upstream of where Urbani Fisheries may one day be doing significant river channel restoration work to remove the shoals of larger cobble that have built up and covered much of the pool habitat from recent storm events, all of which is due to excessive development within the watershed.
). That only further widens the river and adds more sediment, covering up trout and insect habitat. It goes downhill from there. The good news is that we can reverse much of this through certain channel restoration techniques. Saturday will be a minor help with great human effort which we hole will one day lead to towns in the watershed like Oakland doing some major in-channel restoration work.
