In the Media 2015
The Toledo Blade – Toward cleaner water (printed 6/16/15) University of Toledo – 2014 Water Crisis Feature (posted 3/12/14)
AmazonSmile for Clean Water
PCS has partnered with Kroger and AmazonSmile to earn rewards when customers choose PCS to receive a portion of the profits upon purchasing items. Set up your Kroger Community Rewards membership with your Kroger Card and use AmazonSmile instead of the normal Amazon site with PCS as your chosen organization. AmazonSmile is the same store […]
Change for LITTERal Change
Partners for Clean Streams is dedicated to the waterways of the greater Toledo area, but we depend on your support. So we started a challenge to everyone who enjoys our local rivers. We want to know – Can your group, business, or family bring and create the most change for clean water? Every year, hundreds […]
Earth Day Every Day
April 22nd was the 45th Earth Day for our nation and all April long, many people celebrated Earth Month. Now that it is May, we cannot forget to keep taking care of our planet’s resources. PCS has just the right things to help you keep your eco-friendly habits up and even start new ones. You […]
Kids take to the streets-for water and Earth Day
Thank you to the 134 volunteers that took to the streets on April 18th for Storm Drain Marking. You marked over 380 storm drains and dropped off educational material to 1070 homes. You reminded citizens that storm drains lead straight to the nearest ditch, creek, or waterway without being filtered. These dedicated volunteers from church […]
Theory meets reality in Flood Stage
By Ava Slotnick After our harsh winter, spring came, ice melted and rivers flooded. As the river rose, ice and fast moving water rushed into the floodplains of the Maumee River. It moved signs, crushed picnic benches, knocked over trees, swept away roads and left places like Side Cut Metropark and Buttonwood Park asking for […]
2014’s Conservation Educator of the year is Marilyn DuFour
Congratulations goes to Marilyn DuFour for being the Conservation Educator of the year from Lucas Soil & Water Conservation District. She is a Senior Environmental Specialist in the City of Toledo Department of Public Utilities and currently serves in the Industrial Pretreatment Section of the Division of Environmental Services. She has worked for the City […]
April Showers bring Earth Day Celebrations!
PCS staff loves celebrating clean water all the time but especially for the Earth Day season. We will be celebrating at the Toledo Zoo on April 18th with Party for the Planet making Personal Fishing Line Recycling Bins. Dozens of volunteers are already signed up to do Storm Drain Marking around the City on April […]
Volunteers needed to Adopt-A-Bin
Anglers have their waders on, poles in hand, and hooks on their line. And we are putting up our Fishing Line Recycling Bins to recycle the used monofilament line. But we need help! We need volunteers to help monitor and track the line in Fishing Line Recycling Bins that are around the area. Some of […]