If you take the B13 bus from Wyckoff Avenue on Grove Street, it would take you roughly 40 minutes to get to the Ridgewood Reservoir, which sits on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. If you prefer the subway, accessing the reservoir’s front entrance on Vermont Place would be almost a mile walk from the closest station on Van Siclen Avenue.

Admittedly not an incredibly difficult journey — at least for an able-bodied resident — to go through, but it does require some effort to get there. Advocates like Matt Malina of NYCH2O want to make this “natural treasure” more accessible to the public by campaigning for bus stops at the reservoir.

NYCH2O is a not-for-profit organization that has held educational programs for students through field trips to the reservoir over the last five years. The organization has been an active advocate and keeper of the reservoir, having successfully secured protective status for the 150-year-old Ridgewood Reservoir earlier in January.