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- Engage the community to: participate in RCWA programs
and activities;
be a Link because Together~ we make a difference.
- Participate in the collaboration with Metro Water Service’s Adopt-A-Stream program
(stormwater stenciling and creek clean ups). Organize stormwater
stenciling and creek clean up projects, focusing first on areas
of distress, and where poor stewardship is observed.
- Educate the public on watershed sustainability and issues threatening
Richland Creek’s vitality.
- Assess the watershed segment by segment and identify “areas
of concern” (AOC).
- Reduce Non Point Source (NPS) pollution by building a continuum
of residential installation of rain barrels and rain gardens: provide
how-to workshops on these two NPS reducers and encourage participants
who have completed the installation, to in turn, lead a workshop
for another group. Build a volunteer corps of residents
to assist in installing a rain garden or rain barrel for neighbors
that may not be able to do so.
- Offer solutions for observed AOC: report areas that are
experiencing dumping or other illegal activities for video monitoring,
lighting or security controls; propose and raise funds
for riparian restoration projects; build documentation and information
for sampling criteria, and build community volunteer corps to
assist with oversight activities.
- Seek partnership with regulatory agencies for water quality
and stormwater sampling analysis costs.
- Organize fund raising events for a RCWA project.
- Create a database of “sightings;” stakeholder photographs
that document wildlife, flora, AOC or other pertinent issues,
with date, location and name of submitter to be posted on website.
- Synergize goals with partners, and other organizations within
the watershed, utilizing a blend of strategies and backgrounds. Maximum
successes using historical, creative and diversified approaches,
accentuating the commonality between stakeholders.
- Long term goal of establishing a RCWA location for operations, and to create the “green living” Environmental Resource Center (ERC); a living environmental library within the watershed.
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