Bill Nelson with some of the trash he pulled out of the brush near the creek

Bill with more junk before it could wash into the creek

Over the years, our watershed has been used as a dump. This short-sided approach is no longer appropriate. Here is a partial list of 'stuff' members of the watershed council have removed from the creek over the last decade:

A 6'x10' garbage pile that flowed out of two shacks down into the creek; the two shacks(ea. about 10'x12' two stories high);a entire 15' house trailer-in a ravine that flows w/water during the winter; remnants of a meth lab; irragation equipment; 3 engines; 4 transmissions; misc. car parts (doors, fenders, seats, dashboards,wheels); 3 gallon jugs of motor oil floating down the stream; a toilet; sinks; furnace; woodstove; water heater; 3 culverts; most of an entire house that fell into the creek upstream; removed 3+ acres of non-native invasive species (ivy poison hemlock); two mid-sized dumpsters of misc. trash.....