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Oxbow Nature Preserve Project

GIS -- Project underway; pages in planning stage.

Hot Topics

Rain Garden Resources:

Rain Garden Manual for Homeowners: Protecting our water one yard at a time.  (From the Geauga Soil and Water Conservation District.)

Rain Garden Plants ... Ideas and Purchases

Friends of Yellow Creek Sponsors Rain Garden Giveaway

 

Home Septic Systems  Special coverage!

Operation, maintenance, problem prevention, and signs of septic system problems. 

A featured article by Maryanne Rackoff covers legislative & regulatory issues.

 

Nonpoint source pollution

The greatest current threat to our clean environment is not pollution coming from the end of a pipe. 

What is nonpoint source pollution? What can we do to make our environment cleaner?

 

Riparian Corridors & Environmental Planning

Streambed green areas -- what they are, why they are so valuable.  Recommended plantings.

Summit County Township Environmental Planning Education Program Report, October 2006.  Conservation and zoning information.

 

In progress:

Storm Water Management

Impervious Surfaces

Watershed Friendly Yards 

Yellow Creek Action Plan

 

Poorly designed land use is expensive!  It can lead to:

 -- Increasing risk of flooding & erosion to downstream communities.

 -- Increasing costs for dredging & disposal in the navigation channel

 -- Increasing public health risks from poor water quality

From cuyahogariverrap.org/

 

Contest -- Spring 2008

Win a Rain Garden!

 
Recent Past Events

Earth Day 2007

Program, sponsors, activities, and photos

"Clean water is the basis of life." 

Three excellent talks by local experts given in the Spring of 2007

 

 

 

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