Title: Hackensack River Paddle SPLASH Location: Carlstadt to Secaucus Link out: Click here Description: A four-mile point-to-point paddle from River Barge Park in Carlstadt to Laurel Hill County Park in Secaucus, part of the Waterkeeper Alliance SPLASH Event Series presented nationally by Toyota with KEEN to benefit clean water and waterways. Registration is required. Participants [...]

Title: Pontoon Boat Birding Cruise Location: River Barge Park, Carlstadt, NJ Link out: Click here Description: The NJ Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society host a two-hour birding cruise along the Hackensack River and its marshes. Suggested donation: $15 per person. The group expects to see birds like peregrine falcons, ospreys, northern harriers, various [...]

Title: Hackensack River Pontoon Boat Cruises Link out: Click here Description: Explore the Meadowlands up close Wed. and Thurs. with a two-hour guided pontoon boat cruise of the Hackensack River and its surrounding marshes. NJMC staff discuss the region’s human and environmental history and point out birds and other wildlife along the way. Pontoon boat [...]

Title: Comedy Night to Benefit Riverkeeper Location: Redd’s Restaurant, Carlstadt Link out: Click here Description: Hackensack Riverkeeper’s annual Comedy Night, hosted by Rich “The Steamroller of Comedy” Carucci at Redd’s Restaurant and Bar. Cost: $20.00 in advance through Riverkeeper at 201-968-0808 or www.hackensackriverkeeper.org, or $25 at the door. Last year sold out. Redd’s is at [...]

Title: Hackensack River Guided Boat Cruise Location: River Barge Park and Marina, Carlstadt Link out: Click here Description: Two-hour guided pontoon boat cruise of the Hackensack River and its surrounding marshes by NJ Meadowlands Commission staff. Covers the region’s human and environmental history, birds and other wildlife. Ages 10 and up. Suggested donation: $15 per [...]

Title: Hackensack River Guided Boat Cruise Location: River Barge Park and Marina, Carlstadt Link out: Click here Description: Two-hour guided pontoon boat cruise of the Hackensack River and its surrounding marshes by NJ Meadowlands Commission staff. Covers the region’s human and environmental history, birds and other wildlife. Ages 10 and up. Suggested donation: $15 per [...]

Environmental advocates are looking for volunteers to mark storm drains in Secaucus on Saturday as part of a pollution prevention program. The AmeriCorps NJ Watershed Ambassadors program and the Secaucus Environmental Commission have teamed up to place storm drain markers around town to make people aware that the drains are essentially pathways for litter to [...]

A father and his 11-year-old son had to be fished out of the Hackensack River by rescuers near Laurel Hill Park in Secaucus Sunday after the boy reportedly fell out of a boat and the man went in after him, according to the Associated Press. The Jersey Journal said the boy fell in the river [...]

Water quality and aquatic life in the Hackensack River are gradually improving, according to the Meadowlands Commission’s “State of the Hackensack River” review put together for Earth Day. But the gains are fragile and area residents need to limit the use of fertilizers and car soaps that can affect the river that forms Secaucus’ western [...]

The owner of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Secaucus pleaded guilty today to illegally discharging sewage into the Hackensack River and will pay $75K to Hackensack Riverkeeper as part of the plea deal. RD Secaucus LP pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree charge of polluting in Hudson County court, admitting that it discharged polluted water into [...]