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729 St. Matthews Road, Chester Springs
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
610-458-1601
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Our Commitment to Recycling and Clean Energy
Bring Your Own Reusable Water Bottle
Recycling Containers On Site for: Plastic Bottles, Glass Bottles or Metal Cans ONLY
Sustainability Committee - Battery Recycling
The Sustainability Committee will be accepting the following household batteries:
- AAA, AA, C, D, 9-volt, and coin batteries
- Alkaline, NiCad, NiMH, lithium/lithium ion
- Small batteries from certain devices (e.g., cameras, dog collars)
You must tape all terminals of 9-volt batteries with clear tape.
We CANNOT accept 9-volt batteries not taped, power tool batteries, larger batteries or electronics.
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Electric Vehicle Car Show – Township Building Parking Lot
The Clean Energy Transition Team (CETT) will be showcasing several electric vehicles. Expected vehicles include:
Ford Police Interceptor hybrid
SUV
Tesla Model S Long Range,
Tesla Model S, Tesla Model 3
Chevy Bolt (2)
Hyundai IONIQ 5
BMW i3
Ford Mustang Mach-E
Premium AWD
Environmental Advisory Council - Table Activities
Free Milkweed Plants
Make Your Own Flower Seed Balls (children activity)
WV Elementary School Earth Day Artwork Display
Other Activities
Bouncy House, Trackless Train, Inflatable Horse Derby Racing, Tic Tac Toe, and Corn Hole!
Egg Races, Tug-of-War, Three-Legged Races and Potato Sack Races-- fun games for families all day!
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NCC 4H Horse Club - Plant Swap
Bring a plant, pick a plant to take home! Perennial, reseeded annual flowers, or an extra clump of a flowering shrub or perennial.
No plants to spare in your garden? It’s ok to swap a purchased annual!
Can’t think of which plants to swap? Desirable plants which are pollinator favorites include bee balm, echinacea, elderberry, mountain mint, pink muhly grass, wild blue indigo, thread leaf coreopsis, fringed bleeding heart. Desirable annual plants include zinnia, nasturtium, celosia, and cleomethose.
Volunteers will be happy to hold your chosen plant until you leave the grounds.
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Community Day – Pet Parade
Register your pet(s) at the PET PARADE TENT 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
one registration form PER PET!
Pet parade - at the PET PARADE TENT - 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Winners of the contest will be announced by our judges at the end of the parade.
Arts and game tables for the kids--Lucky Ducks, Basketball Toss, Piggy Bank Races, DIY Kites !
Look for daily updates of events, artists, spotlights on entertainers and a schedule of events on our Community Day home page.
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Enter our Instagram Contest! WVTIFOUNDVINCENT! WIN A $150 VISA GIFT CARD!
Where’s Vincent? Introducing Vincent, our West Vincent Township gnome!
Vincent will be on the move all summer at various township businesses and will begin his journey at Community Day!
Find Vincent, snap a picture with him, post on Instagram, tag us in your picture (wvtownship), and in the caption type: #wvtifoundvincent.
Community Day: Vincent will be in a different location every hour! Look for him as you make your way around the different activities and tables!
Around the Township: Find Vincent at any of our local businesses during the summer. He will move around each month in May, June, July, August and September! Be sure to take a picture with Vincent at the location!
You will be assigned a raffle entry for each picture posted with the tag #wvtifoundvincent on our wvtownship Insta! Post all five locations at Community Day and you will be given an extra raffle entry!
How to Post on Our Instagram Account:
• Follow us on Instagram at wvtownship
• We will follow you back (be sure to accept our request, otherwise your
pics will not be accepted in the contest)
• Take a pic with Vincent, tag us in the picture: wvtownship, and in the caption
type: #wvtifoundvincent
Raffle winner will be selected at random and will receive a $150 VISA gift card. Contest runs from May 14, 2022 through September 30, 2022. Winner will be notified on our Instagram account and website on October 3, 2022.
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Protecting and Improving our Watersheds
Kathy McDevitt, EAC and CETT member
As we welcome the warmer weather, spring showers may be over, but summer storms are not far behind.
Dependent on where you live in West Vincent (map above), rain falling on your property will either wash into French Creek or Pickering Creek, both of which empty into the Schuylkill River and Delaware Bay. When products such as fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and other substances are introduced to our pristine streams, they become pollutants that contaminate drinking water and kill the plants and animals that live in and depend on the water.
Suggested solutions to manage flooding, retain water for dry weather, and reduce the quantity of nutrients and chemicals that are washed off their property can be found in a booklet, "A Homeowner's Guide to Stormwater Management", prepared by the Office of Watersheds, Philadelphia Water Department.
Our county and neighboring townships are also a resource and our partners in improving and protecting the health of our watersheds: Chester County, East Pikeland Township, Uwchlan Township.
Visit our Environmental Advisory Council webpage for resources, education and special projects.
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Household Hazardous Waste Disposal – Drive Up and Drop Off! - John Barnett, Sustainability Committee member
Our residents and neighboring townships have it EASY when we need to discard household hazardous waste (HHW)! Several times each year, the Chester County Solid Waste Authority (CCSWA) hosts full-day drive-thru collection sites at convenient locations throughout the county.
On Saturday, April 9, the first event was held in the parking lot of Technical College High School, Pickering Campus. CCSWA personnel and employees from MXI Environmental Services were ready for county residents to drive up and dispose of their fluorescent bulbs, oil-based paint, old automobile fluids, pesticide bottles, and other types of HHW.
Workers removed the HHW from the cars and deposited in the appropriate disposal and recycling containers. No one had to get out of their cars!
The event requires pre-registration for your desired drop off time. Our Sustainability Committee chair, Kirk Reinbold registered for a morning timeslot and was, “in and out in under five minutes!”. VERY convenient!
The remaining four Household Hazardous Waste Collection events will be held at various locations across the county in 2022.
Follow these steps to participate:
Visit the Sustainability Committee webpage to keep in touch and up to date.
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Election Day, May 17, 2022 – West Vincent Township
Building is a polling place for Precinct 690.
The Administrative offices will be open during normal business hours.
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All Township and Police Department up-to-date information can be found on the West Vincent Township website at www.westvincenttwp.org.
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