Litter Removal to Make Planned Park 'Clean and Welcoming'

Progress has been made in creating a new park with a nature trail and parking area on Brooklake Road in Florham Park, about three quarters of a mile past Brooklake Elementary School toward Madison, but the road around the park is marred with litter and debris.

A community cleanup effort on Saturday morning is designed to change that.

Ted Trautman, chair of the Florham Park Environmental Commission, said residents, Scouts and students have been invited to participate in the cleanup, which involves picking up garbage along Brooklake Road from Sherbooke Drive to Fish Brook Park.

The event is meant to give residents an easy way to participate and get invested in the project, Trautman said.

"They could put a little skin in the game," he said.

The event will get that section of the borough "clean and welcoming" for when the nature path opens later this spring or early summer.

"It will be clean and welcoming and something that everybody can enjoy," Trautman said.

The event is scheduled from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Participants should meet at the Conservation Management Area at the intersection of Brooklake Road and East Madison Avenue, wear boots or sturdy shoes, and bring work gloves. For more information email info@florhamparkenvironmental.org.