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Passaic River Cleanup

Join the Rutgers-Newark Chapter of NJPIRG's Community Water Watch this Earth Day and on Global Youth Service Day to help clean up the Passaic River!

  Saturday, April 26th
10:30am - 1pm
Riverbank Park, Newark

Speakers and free food! Trashbags and gloves will be provided. 

Shuttle buses will depart from Robeson Campus Center on the Rutgers Newark campus on MLK Blvd. at 10:15 and transport volunteers to and from the cleanup site.

Contact Bill Feeney at newark@njwaterwatch.org or call 973-353-5021 for questions or more details.

Directions to the park:

From NJ Turnpike - Take Exit 15E toward Jersey City/Newark. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Raymond Blvd. Turn left toward Raymond Blvd./US1-9. Turn right at Raymond Blvd. and follow to Van Buren - park bet. Van Buren and Somme St.

From Garden State Parkway - Take Exit 145 and merge onto I-280 E toward Harrison/Newark. Take exit 16 and make a left at Harrison Ave. Turn right at Frank E. Rodgers Blvd S and continue on Jackson St. Turn left at market St. Turn left at Fillmore St. Turn left at Raymond Blvd. Park is on the right between Van Buren and Somme St. 

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