Three Solebury nonprofits that last year founded the Primrose Creek Coalition, given their mutual interest in the ecological sustainability of the creek, are set to publicly roll out their effort to preserve the waterway and its aquifer.
The coalition created by Phillips Mills Community Association, The Primrose Creek Watershed Association, and the New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts will hold a public kickoff meeting at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Phillips Mill Community Association’s mill, located at 2619 River Road in Solebury.
At the meeting, the group will discuss the coalition’s work “to develop a plan and restoration projects designed to protect and conserve the benefits that the Creek brings to its community,” according to a statement from the coalition issued by John S. Francis, who is a Solebury Township supervisor and liaison to its Environmental Advisory Council as well as a resident of Phillips Mill Road.
The press release also lists the heads of the three nonprofits — Laura Womak, of PMCA, Francis Collins, of PCWA, and Lawrence Booth, of NHC.
With donated work from Simone Collins Landscape Architecture and funding from the Lower Delaware Wild & Scenic River organization, the group has developed a Primrose Creek Plan with specific preservation projects and goals.
One project the press release notes would install a pilot riparian repair project on the Phillips Mill property “to create an educational template for residents who may wish to create riparian buffers on their private properties.”
The Primrose Creek and its watershed aquifer supply about 850 homes with their well water, according to the release.
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