Name: Tree Planting along Mill Creek - Riparian Buffer and Reforestation - 2025
Start: 2023-02-25T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-19T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Black Ditch Creek / Mill Creek (Levittown, PA)

Tree Planting along Mill Creek - Riparian Buffer and Reforestation - 2025

Along Mill Creek in Bristol Township, PA we are installing a riparian buffer to help lessen storm water. Planting native trees and shrubs.
About this Event

Along Black Ditch, a tributary of Mill Creek in Levittown, Bristol Township PA we are installing a riparian buffer to help lessen storm water. We will be removing invasive shrubs then planting native trees and native berrying shrubs to spread the good native plants by feeding birds.

More about this project

Dates of volunteer events:
Tree source: Keystone 10 Million Trees

3 acres ,

200 trees, 50 shrubs (were planted in the spring 2023)
75 trees, 25 shrubs (were planted in falll 2023)

With the help of Penn State Master Watershed Stewards, we treated an acre of knotweed with herbicide to enable native reforestation in the coming years.

25 trees and shrubs (were planted with some caging through a grant from Giant Grocies and Keep PA Beautiful Fall 2024 in the herbicided area were Knotweed was removed)

(2025 Tending)