What’s On Tap

Want to know what is going on in the watershed world this month?

Lehigh Valley What’s on Tap – From February to November, we post all the ‘watershed happenings’ in the Lehigh Valley and beyond. In the winter, watershed people generally hibernate. For more information visit your watershed association’s Facebook or web page.

Lehigh Valley What’s on Tap

April 1st, 2026

Bushkill Stream Conservancy:

  • 4/12/26 – Talk with New Creations UCC Church
  • 4/18/26 Palmer township Earth Day – tabling event
  • 4/18/26 Water testing
  • 4/24/26 Nurture Nature Youth Climate Summit 
  • 4/25/26 Arbor Fest of Easton – tabling event

Cook’s Creek Watershed Association:

  • Roadside cleanup from 9-4 on April 11th starting at Springtown Firehouse. Anyone who wants to come should get in touch first
  • Mini Monster Mayhem is June 18th at Scott’s house in Springtown. Grades 1-5, all children should be accompanied by an adult
  • Tabling at Passer Community Center starting in May, dates TBD
  • Tent with a table at the Passer Farmer’s Market on May 20th, June 10th, July 8th, and August 12th
  • Kid’s fishing derby will take place April 11th
  • Monthly meetings occur every fourth Thursday

Monocacy Creek Watershed Association:

  • New website has launched!
  • April 1st: Tabling at the Lehigh University Earth and Mineral Science event
  • April 2: Live stake event at Keystone Cement
  • April 12: Stream Cleanup at Illick’s Mill

Fry’s Run Watershed Association:

  • Saturday April 4th, Adopt-a-Highway trash cleanup
  • Tuesday April 7th, monthly meeting
  • Saturday April 18th, live staking/planting

Bertsch Hokendauqua Catasauqua Watershed Association:

  • Stream clean-up with Trout Unlimited April 25th
  • Hokey Park and Walnutport Canal are being monitored and weeded
  • They are attending a meeting of the local scout troop to do a conservation activity
  • In may they will attend the Mayfaire Celebration at the Waldorf School and doing conservation activities with the kids
  • June 14th: A rain barrel workshop at the Walnutport Pavilion
  • Another rain barrel workshop on August 22nd during their annual community day
  • Peggy Shannon is moving to Portugal in April and will be sorely missed!

Saucon Creek Watershed Association:

  • April 1, 2026:  Lehigh University Better Together Event
  • April 11, 2026:  Cooks Creek/Saucon Creek Watershed Roadside Litter Pickup
  • May 16, 2026:  Heritage Day at Heller Homestead – 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM (Volunteers Needed)
  • August 16, 2026:  Community Day in Hellertown 
  • August 23, 2026: The following week SCWA will attend the Saucon Valley Farmers Market to sell remaining plants

Aquashicola Pohopoco Watershed Conservancy:

  • Streamside/roadside clean-up on the “Adopt-a-Highway” stretch in April, date TBD

Tobyhanna Creek Tunkhannock Creek Watershed Association:

  • Night of STEAM on April 13th
  • The new signs for the cranberry bog are in final review
  • Work on boardwalk education platforms will start once the weather warms up

Little Lehigh Watershed Stewards:

  • 4.11.26  Tree planting with Wildlands Conservancy at Cedar Beach 9 – 12 am
  • Early May – Paul plans use the brush hog for tree maintenance
  • 4.17.26  Jennifer giving presentation about road salt pollution to Allentown Rotary, Cedar Crest College
  • 4.18.26 Allentown Earth Day in the Park, Cedar Beach Park 11:30 – 4:30
  • 4.29.26, 5.1.26  Envirothon at Covered Bridge Park, Orefield
  • 5.7.26  Hydromania, Cedar Crest College, Allentown

Neshaminy Creek Watershed Association:

  • Nothing other than monthly meetings

Tohickon Watershed Association Committee

  • April 11 – Invasive species removal at Lake Towhee
  • April 16 – General membership meeting at Lake Nockamixon.  Topic is “making a difference in the watershed” featuring MWSS coordinator Kathleen Connally
  • April 22 – Stream Cleanup at Licking Creek Quakertown
  • April 25 – Tabling event at Nockamixon Earth Day (rain date May 2)
  • May 2 – Tabling event at River Valley Waldorf School Mayfaire
  • May 9 – Native planting at Lake Towhee
  • May 16 – Tabling event at Quakertown Alive festival

Martins-Jacoby Watershed Association: 

  • Ongoing monthly meetings

North Pocono CARE

  • May 17th, 11am, Choke Creek Falls parking area: Choke Creek Falls Trail, Julian Maza of DCNR will lead a discussion of current forest management projects 
  • May date TBD: Thornhurst Riverfront Park Garden Planting. Planting a Rain Garden as part of a stormwater management system for the parking lot of the park. 
  • Ongoing, water testing the second weekend of every month at six sites in the watershed 

Northampton County Parks

Planning is ongoing for Wildflower Week & the weeklong Louise Moore Park BioBlitz from July 12-July 19

2026 Park Facilities Reservation Season opens April 11

Northampton County Parks & Recreation was officially renamed as Northampton County Parks, Recreation & Conservation

An accessible fishing dock was recently installed on the East Shore of Minsi Lake

Three more Purple Martin Towers/54 nesting gourds (18 gourds per tower) were recently installed in the Minsi Lake Greenway; there are now 11 Purple Martin Towers/198 nesting gourds in the Greenway