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- 1. Urban Watershed Restoration: Unique contributions from college and high school students Calvin College Plaster Creek Stewards Dr. Gail Heffner Deanna Geelhoed Christa Fernando
- 2. Watersheds are topographical and hydrological units that integrate the landscape into nested sets of drainages.
- 3. Background statistics: • Length: approx. 14 miles • Watershed area: 58 mi2 • Governmental units: 9 (4 municipalities & 5 town- ships) • >50% of Calvin fac. and staff • 172 congregations and 129 schools
- 5. • Flow dynamics (volume) • Sediment • Bacterial contamination • Nutrient pollution • Thermal pollution • Trash and Toxic substances Main Problems >5000 E. coli colonies per 100ml! ************* Safe for body contact= 130 E. coli colonies/ 100 ml
- 7. How do we begin restoring this damaged urban watershed?
- 8. Plaster Creek Stewards A collaboration of Calvin College, schools, churches, and community partners working to restore health and beauty to the Plaster Creek Watershed.
- 9. Education and Outreach builds awareness and concern
- 10. Research leads to increased understanding of how to do restoration work
- 13. Native Plant Propagation at Calvin College
- 14. Green Team Summer youth employment program How the Green Team fits with our mission Education Environmental justice and upstream/downstream awareness Inspiring urban restoration – an alternative to complacency Research Opportunity to shadow college research assistants Restoration Implementation and maintenance of Green Infrastructure
- 15. Plaster Creek Stewards Green Team
- 16. Classroom sessions – watershed ecology, stormwater runoff, environmental justice, native plants, sustainable business
- 17. Research: studying E.coli sources in Plaster Creek
- 18. Seed Collection
- 19. Growing Seeds – Greenhouse
- 21. Impact of the Green Team experience: Learning what a healthy watershed should look like
- 22. Seeing problems with Plaster Creek in person and learning what can be done
- 23. Learning about on-the-ground restoration and green infrastructure
- 24. Senior Project: working with PCS and the City of Kentwood
- 25. The results!
- 26. Find us on the web: www.calvin.edu/go/plastercreekstewards Find us on Facebook under Plaster Creek Stewards