Jersey City Reservoir

Check our Jersey City Reservoir facebook page for updates on our wild edibles walk and opening status today.

Our Third Annual Fishing Derby starts this Saturday, June 6 at 10am.  Participation is free, and we’ll have prizes for kids and adults at 1 pm.  Meet us at the Jefferson Ave. gate between Summit and Central Aves.

Our Sponsors are Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, Council President Mariano Vega, Jr., Council members Peter Brennan, Willie Flood, Michael Sottolano, Steve Lipski, William Gaughan, Steven Fulop, Viola Richardson, Phillip J. Kenny, and Councilperson-elect Nidia R. Lopez.

Thank you to Andy Gray and the Department of Recreation, Department of Public Works, and the Office of Cultural Affairs.

The Reservoir Alliance is gearing up for the spring and summer! You might notice some changes, including water being pumped from the lake by the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (JCMUA). In our determined efforts to maintain the Reservoir as both a space for community recreation and ecological preservation, the water level will be reduced a few feet over the next several days. The City of Jersey City has worked with the Reservoir Alliance to make this lowering possible and all necessary permits for the project have been approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

From high water

This is necessary for both safety and practical reasons as it will enable easier access for upcoming summer events including the fishing derby, nature days, and our always popular Saturday openings. Community members will have easier and safer access to fishing, hiking and recreating throughout the Reservoir all summer as a result. It will also enable us do a more thorough spring cleaning around the waterline. The timing is also crucial as it avoids interference with fish spawning cycles and any dramatic change for migratory birds.

Thank you to Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Council President Mariano Vega, the City Council, Andy Grey and the Department of Recreation, and the JCMUA for coordinating this project.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Sunday, October 26th

From Closing day at the Reservoir 2008

We had fishing, fire engine No. 11, hot dogs, nature, and lots of fun at our end-of-season Reservoir Block Party!  Thanks to Andy Gray and the Rec Department and all our great volunteers!

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We’ll see you next year!

From hsbc 08

Thanks to HSBC for their generosity and hard work on their 2nd NJ Day of Caring at the Reservoir. Their volunteers cleaned up trails, pulled out invasives, and put in hundreds of native plants like persimmon, blueberry, sassafras and cattails!

Click here for slideshow of HSBC volunteers at work

From Autumn 2008

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Thanks to the Journal’s reporter Lisa Chen and to photographers Don McCoy and Richard McCormack for covering our summer program!

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Nature Day, after being rained out on Saturday, was a big success on Sunday. Kids and adults played awareness games like Flinchmaster and Silent Stalk, helped make fire by friction with a bow set, and participated in an Environmental Scavenger hunt, testing water quality and identifying fish, birds, and bugs!

Scavenger Hunt winners were

1. Tyler Vitale
2. Anthony Senerchia
3. Hank Longo
4. Andrew McGrath
5. Adam Gellman
6. Rachel Gellman

Thanks to all who participated!

Our Saturday event got started, but we got chased away by some intense thunderstorms.

Nature Day is rescheduled for tomorrow, with games and nature skills starting promptly at noon, and one Scavenger Hunt at 1 pm. The gate will be open from noon to about 2pm. See you there!

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Pershing Plaza Gate, across from Troy Street and Summit Avenue

At Jersey City’s Reservoir’s Nature Day, the fun will start Saturday morning as participants connect to nature in our community. Students, seniors and families will explore the ecology of the Reservoir, participate in an environmental scavenger hunt, and learn some basic survival skills. There will be prizes and giveaways.

Nature can seem far from us as city people, but global warming and events like Hurricane Katrina show how environmental disruption affects everyone deeply. Reservoir Nature Day participants can help protect our environment’s future.

Schedule

• Scavenger Hunts will start at 11 and 1, with a Mini-Hunt at 3. Teams will explore the water, trees, bugs, and plant species of the Reservoir.
• Games to test your awareness will start at 10:30, 12:30, and 2:30.
• Learn wilderness and survival skills throughout the day.
• Jersey City Reservoir’s Nature Day will happen from 10 until 4 on Saturday, August 2, at the Jersey City Reservoir 3, Pershing Plaza Gate, across from Summit Avenue and Troy Street.

Nature is all around us, even in Jersey City, and our goal is stir passion and curiosity and start residents on an adventure in our environment, beginning at our Reservoir!

A special thanks to all those who made this possible - the City of Jersey City, Mayor Jerramiah Healy, the Municipal Council, Mariano Vega, President, the Division Of Cultural Affairs, and to all our sponsors including HSBC bank.

For more info contact -

Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance

Steven Latham

201-656-5235

jcreservoir@gmail.com

We had our first kayaking day, and it was a great success! A beautiful and breezy day, not too hot, and lots of people out on the water. Thanks to Sandy Sobanski and Downtown Boathouse for their great efforts, and to Richard McCormack and the Jersey Journal for the great pics and news item!