The Clean Your Streams planning team has finally waded through the data cards and the final numbers are in! An amazing 1,175 people participated in the 16th Annual Clean Your Streams event. Together they collected 18,822 pounds of trash in just 2.5 hours. That’s the weight of four average-sized cars. Volunteers filled 903 trash bags […]
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Northwest Ohio Community Shares workplace giving campaigns are now underway! This workplace giving campaign goes to support 26 small, local non-profits here in northwest Ohio, including Partnesr for Clean Streams. Your support helps us promote clean, clear and safe streams and rivers for generations to come! You are now able to select Partners for Clean […]
This year’s Get the Lead Out! Program has been a huge success. With over 300 volunteer hours and 2 miles of river cleaned, this season has been record breaking! As our summer comes to a close, the Ocean Conservancy’s The Blog Aquatic has taken note of the great work our volunteers have done with Get […]
The 16th Annual Clean Your Streams could not have been possible without so much help from our many sponsors and our dedicated planning team. Our underwriter sponsors this year were BP-Husky Refining, First Solar, Lucas County Storm Water Utility, Johnson Controls, Perstorp Polyols, and The University of Toledo. Too many other great companies and organizations […]
A record shattering, 1,165 volunteers joined us for the 16th Annual Clean Your Streams on Saturday, the 15th. With 9 kickoff location and at least 60 sites cleaned, dedicated volunteers removed bags of garbage, tires and many other large items from our local streams and rivers. Those numbers impressed even our planning team. And the […]
The time is here! Construction efforts at camp are currently underway and the changes are everywhere. Geo. Gradel and Ecological Restoration are hard at work doing their best to stay the course and keep our timeline goal set for finishing visible work by the end of October. Ottawa River construction is underway with the installation […]
After carefully considering several bid proposal packages, PCS has awarded the Camp Miakonda Restoration Project to a local firm: Geo. Gradel Co. who has chosen Ecological Restoration to work alongside them as a subcontractor. With an expected ground-breaking next month, camp will be seeing several phases of construction throughout September and October. Gradel has decided […]
Check out our new E-news blasts! We are changing the format, the name and we are working to integrate our E-news blasts with our website, making it easier for you to read and engage in. We are also including some other new features like quick links. The name “Currents” comes from the old Maumee RAP […]
Our partner, Bob Neubert, at the Lucas County Engineer’s Office, and the Boy Scouts took on a large task. As part of the Citizenship of the World Badge, 59 Boy Scouts from 14 troops volunteered to stencil on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 for multiple hours in Sylvania Township. They painted 580 Storm Drains with the […]