Folsom Environmental Commission

06/10/2025

Folsom Environmental Commission
Is planning a street clean up for Park Avenue, a section of 14th Street and Backline road, and part of 13th street

Saturday, June 21st 9 am to noon (if needed)

👍🏻Do you need Community Service?

😥Are you tired of seeing trash along our streets?

🙌🏼Do you like Fresh Air?

🍕Does PIZZA for lunch sound good to you?

💪🏽Well..... let's do something about it !!

Meeting Place: Corner of Backline road and 14th street

Students and parents are welcome

The ACUA has supplied us with vests, T shirts, pickers, gloves, trash and recycling bags so let's take pride in our small town and let people know we are doing something! 🌍

05/23/2025

The knights of Columbus from Galloway installed 600 flags in remembrance of fallen soldiers at Folsom Borough Hall. They will remain for one month.

04/23/2025

The FOLSOM ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION is having a street clean up this Saturday with local scouts pac 98. Everyone should help keep our town trash free!

04/23/2025

We sponsored Arbor Day contests for Folsom school grades K, 1st, 5th and 6th, and 7th, 8th. Awards will be given to 1st and 2nd place winners for each grade level.
We hope students will appreciate our environment and help protect it in the future.
Two businesses in town donated desserts and lunch for winners also. Thank you, Stoc Up and Harley Dawn for your generosity and helping us promote environmental awareness.

02/24/2025

The Pinelands golf course is applying to the NJDEP to draw more water from the Cohansey Kirkwood aquifer to water their grass. This aquifer extends from Trenton down to Cape May and from the Delaware River to the Atlantic. The general direction of flow underground is from West to East and Northwest to Southeast. In effect, Folsom is downstream from the golf course.
The Borough of Folsom Environmental Commission is concerned about excessive diversion of water from the Kirkwood Cohansey Aquifer for the purpose of watering the golf course since no additional information is provided. It is understood that Pond 1 is a supply of water which is aided by withdrawal of groundwater from Well 1.
The new application, filed on March 7, 2023, requests diversion of 7 million gallons of water each month. Our first question is what happens if more water is needed during dry months? The test conducted in 2021 pumped water at a rate of 145 g/m. This test ran for 72 hours. However, the application is asking to pump 1,000 g/m out of the ground. This is 6 times greater therefore producing unknown impact!
The concern about drawing much more water than in the past is the impact on surface water, plants and wildlife as well as an impact on resident wells.
If you are interested in writing a letter of concern to the NJDEP, please email the Department at:
[email protected] the emails will be read during a Public Hearing in Trenton. Please provide your contact information (name, telephone number and email)
Thank you!

11/13/2024

Folsom Environmental Commission
Second Chance Toy Drive!!!

Join us in making a difference for our FIFTH season!

66% of our nation’s toys are plastic! Millions of tons of plastic toys end up in landfills. That includes Buzz Lightyear and Mr. Potato Head. It is our goal, with your help, to reduce the amount of plastics in our landfills while giving children around our community a brighter and more cheerful Holiday Season.

· When you donate a much needed lightly used toy, you are providing so much more than the toy itself!
· Toys provide motivation and a medium to learn. They help children develop motor skills. They bring joy and laughter.
· As our children grow older they learn to share and there is no better time to share than the Holidays coming up.

Here are some tips to follow:
1. Toys must be plastic.
2. CLEAN – wipe them down inspect them to insure they are like new!
3. NO missing parts.
4. Include batteries that work
5. No toys that fit through a toilet paper roll (hazard)
6. Have baggies and masking tape on hand to attach loose pieces to the toy.

DATES for drop off: Monday, November 18th thru Tuesday, December 3rd
Location: Bring the lightly used and cleaned plastic toys to Borough Hall and drop them off in a bin either in the lobby or outside the front door. During open hours only!!!

We will then have toys available to pick up at Borough Hall lawn on Saturday, DEC. 14th !

PLEASE help us REDUCE plastics in landfills and GIVE a child a joyous Holiday Season. It would be a great family project finding some slightly used plastic toys, CLEANING them, and then ….Just drop them in the bin.

Together we can do something bigger than just recycling!!

Thank you!
The FEC

04/14/2024

My first guided interpretive hike of the season at Franklin Parker Preserve. Learn about one of the largest conservation land purchases in state history leaving enough light for me to show you all my favorite plants, some flowering now. As the sun sets we willl look and listen for crepuscular and nocturnal species of animals as they emerge. 2-3 hours about 2 miles.

Night HikeTake our guided evening hike to get a different perspective of the forest under the light of the moon.Book online now!Share: Do you live for the nightlife?! So do the whippoorwills, frogs, and owls of the NJ pine barrens, along with many others! Get a different perspective of the forest un...

03/08/2024

Canceled due to inclement weather stay tuned for a new day and time.

YOUR FOLSOM ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION IS PLANNING A STREET CLEAN UP! 🌲 🌲 🌲 ☀️

🌎Park Avenue and 14th street on Saturday, March 23rd, 9 am to noon
We are asking residents on those streets to help in cleaning up litter along the two roads.
♻️Please take a little time to help beautify our town – we know there is a major problem of people throwing trash along the roads.
🙌🏼 Meeting Place: small park on corner of South River Drive and Pine.
Students and parents are welcome! 🍕
Pizza when we are done.
We have all the safety gear and equipment!

11/09/2023

Power has been out all day on Mays Landing Rd due to a car striking a pole on the intersection at 54. Be advised Mays Landing Rd remains closed between 54 and 8th.

06/18/2023

Folsom Community Garden is coming together! A beautiful space for the community to grow food and flowers and just enjoy green space. Plots are still available to get started on your own garden.

06/14/2023

A good reason to keep an environmentally friendly yard. Lightning bugs are declining because of pesticides and light pollution. What we do in our backyard matters…

More than 170 species of fireflies light up North America's nights, but several are threatened by light pollution, pesticides and climate change.