Each October, New Jersey Community Water Watch participates in Make A Difference Day. Last year, 455 volunteers attended River Cleanups throughout New Jersey, as part of Water Watch's annual Make a Difference Day Cleanup. Events were organized in New Brunswick, East Brunswick, Camden, Newark and Atlantic City.

Highlights from Make a Difference Day:

On the Raritan River, 140 volunteers came out to cleanup Boyd Park in New Brunswick. Sen. Bob Smith, and Assm. Chivukula kicked-off the cleanup. Volunteers included Roweena Madden, the Exec. Director of the New Jersey State Commission on National and Community Service, members of the DEP's Watershed Ambassadors Program, students from sports teams, clubs, fraternities and sororities at Rutgers University, and members of the New Brunswick community.

The Julies Shepherd Pond in East Brunswick benefited from the work of 83 volunteers, who removed 10 tons of trash from this pond, and the Saw Mill Brook.

In Garfield, the New Jersey Community Water Watch chapter at Rutgers Newark organized over 80 volunteers, with community groups ranging from church groups to Boy Scouts, and a number of local community leaders.

Camden's Make a Difference Day Cleanup was launched by Camden Freeholder Riletta Cream, and attended by over 80 volunteers from the community and Rutgers Camden.

As part of the Clean Ocean Action Beach Sweep, the New Jersey Community Water Watch chapter at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and 30 volunteers from the campus, cleaned the beaches of Atlantic City.