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Rancocas State Park Bluewater Trail Paddle Guide

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W the paddle guide comes a resulting increase in paddlers and others on the Creek.   A work day for volunteers is being scheduled in June of 2018.   Through Westampton Fire Company water trail volunteers will be able to get CPR certified which is a insurance requirement; gain a hands-on working knowledge of stokes basket, which will be used in an evacuation of a injured person and other basic, fundamental emergency techniques.   Volunteers will also discuss placement locations of water trail markers and get involved in placing markers.   This includes turning the Melpine Landing house space into a trail marker workshop.  Because of the CPR segment, registration is required.   Contact John Anderson, R.N., Director of Pathways 4 additional information.

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(required volunteer registration is your name and age, your interests will be asked later).

Dangerous Paddling Conditions Weekend of May 19.

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  1. National Weather Service  (note flood warnings)

 

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.99738000000008&lon=-74.78407999999996#.Wv1Hd2Mh2cw

 

  1. Stream Flow Water Level Gauge Readings (note raise of creek levels in the headwaters. it normally takes 24-48 hrs for these volumes to reach the tidewaters)

 

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/uv/?site_no=01467000&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,62614

 

  1. Source and non-Source run-off normally takes 24-48 hours to run through drains and then into the Creek, proper

 

Any person kayaking 24-48 hours after a storm is advised to take a shower afterwards.   This is a prudent and safe BMP and the standard followed throughout the USA.  Water quality is impacted by storms and rain.

Intimacy – Seeking Out a Water Trail

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There is an urgency to understand the Rancocas Creek while its future remains a question.  What would the Rancocas be like if its future remains hidden in plain sight?  The Rancocas Creek appreciates distance, tides, open space, “big-sky”,  enhanced public access, multi-use, heritage, Pine Barrens, non-tidal waters and community’s.  400 years past written patterns and trends speak of  the Rancocas Creek and its landscapes.  Prior to this animals and Indians perpetual movements (amended respectfully to M. Brown) created trails and song-lines. Traversing West Jersey, from the Pines to the Tide the Rancocas is a cultivated multi-use resource of water quality, stories, commerce and access.

Not only as a repository of migratory wildlife man harbors and seek to go further searching answers to questions of what is beyond the Rancocas Creek in 2018?

Ability to move translates to increasing the odds of achievement.  We see, we feel, we touch, we paddle, we visit, we relax, we sojourn in peace on the Rancocas.  Our collective and collaborative familiarity is the connection to the Creek, individuals, groups and community.    We are guided along the Rancocas by the whispers of Buddhist monks who run 1,000 marathons in 1,000 days, by Indians who traveled the Rancocas Creek “backbone” and by those “crossing the ford” between people, the land and the Creek.

Meaghan Brown writes  we create and seek trails for movement along trails is the best way to learn, to know, to feel and to immerse ones self in (sic) Rancocas Creek landscapes. For knowing the Rancocas, falling in love w the Rancocas for a multitude of reasons and concerns intensifies our desires to enhance public access to the Rancocas for the future.