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The
world has no more fresh water than it did 2000 years ago, when the population was less than 3% of its present size. |
• October
2008 Fall Watershed-Wide Clean Up
• June 2008
Spring Creek Clean Up
• May 2007 RCWA/WEMS
Stormwater Stenciling partnership activity
• April 2007 First RCWA Earth Day Celebration: Creek Clean Up at
Charlotte Avenue
Earth Day at Centennial Park.
• Oct 2007 RCWA /TrailWatch Volunteer
Program for Creek and Greenway Cleanup.
• Participating in Metro Water Service’s Adopt-A-Stream program
• Public
educational programs
The
"How to Build and Install a Rain Barrel workshop:
Adapting wooden and plastic barrels into Rain Barrels" reduces pollution to creeks.
For
every inch of rain that falls on a 1,000 square feet roof area, you can possibly
collect approximately 600 gallons of rainwater.
Rain barrels not only improve
water quality of streams but also save money on your water bill.
Rain water is
chlorine-free water, which plants prefer.
2008 Fall Watershed-Wide Clean Up
Our
First Annual Watershed Wide Clean Up was a great success. This was
a productive and community building day and the creek is smiling from our
efforts. The event resulted in 7 clean up site locations
and attracted 92 volunteers who removed tons of trash throughout the watershed. 
Special thanks to the event sponsors for providing give-a-ways, supplies
and logistical support: H.G. Hill Realty, Publix, Starbucks, TrailWatch,
Greenways for Nashville, Metro Public Works, Metro Parks and Metro Water
Services. Our fantastic volunteer groups included:
Friends of Richland Creek (Lions Head area- Post Place Condominiums), Kowalski Chiropractic (108 Harding Place), Warner Park Community Association WPCA and Troop 42 and Troop 6 Boy Scouts, Richland Creek Greenway (RCG) TrailWatch (Greenway and creek area), Earth Revolution (West Park at Morrow Road), and Richland Creek Watershed Alliance (Whitebridge TrailHead).
See the blog for more details and photos!
2008 Spring Creek Clean Up
Thirty-one volunteers removed 1.55 tons of trash from this short segment of Richland Creek with contagious team spirit. These folks were from numerous neighborhoods throughout our watershed; including our Councilman Jason Holleman and West End Middle School Student Leader, Callie Hendrickson.
The total refuse weight above does not include the cut trees volunteers removed from the stream bed. Because cut trees and brush do not go to the landfill, these piles were left out of the roll-off dumpster for Metro brush pick-up.
The sponsors for our event were:
Harris Teeter on Highway 100 (snacks and fruit); Kroger on Charlotte Pike (drinks and ice); Blinker-Lite (porta-potty); Jack in the Box at White Bridge (sandwiches); and Metro Public Works and Water Services, in conjunction with the Great American Clean Up, (T-shirts, gloves, trash bags, promotion and refuse pick up).
May
2007:
RCWA/WEMS Stormwater Stenciling in Sylvan Park
RCWA Coordinator/WEMS
liason, VIcky Amann and her son John, and Student Steward Leader, Callie
Hendrickson. The project is beginnining their work in the Sylvan
Park Neighborhood.
The
stenciling says: "No Dumping- this water drains to Richland
Creek Watershed," with a catfish in the center.
West End Middle School partners with RCWA as student
stewards. See the WEMS rain barrel at right. Two 7th grade science students
have taken leadership roles. They are WEMS students Callie
Hendrickson and Jacob Krantz under Dr. Cliff Cockerham’s
supervision. RCWA would like to thank Vicky Amann who
took a leadership role as a parent and RCWA volunteer to make this partnership
possible.
RCWA joins with TrailWatch Volunteer Program for Creek and Greenway Cleanup
Starbucks (White Bridge location) provided coffee for event volunteers.
We had approximately 25 participants from various neighborhoods: Sylvan Park, Lions Head, Sylvan Heights, Woodlawn and Cherokee Park.
Greenways for Nashville representative Renee Bates is at the Staging area.
Some of the trash found in and along our greenway and creek.
See more photos on the Metro Government website.
First RCWA Earth Day Celebration Project: Creek Clean UP at Charlotte Avenue
See
more photos on
the Metro
Government website.
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