Current Stream Team Projects

Southgate Community Nature Preserve - June 9th

Students from the Stream Team will continue their third year off a five year commitment to the Southgate Community Nature Preserve. This event will encompass trail construction, stream clean-up, tree planting, trail construction and park bench placement. Quite an busy day.

Downriver Benthic Monitoring w/ Wayne County - Fall

Students from schools throughout Downriver will continue their work dealing with Benthic Monitoring Downriver. This program is intended to help local communities meet with the Federal requirements dealing with the Clean Water Act Stormwater permits. Previous schools will continue their sampling at their prior locations while new schools will select their own.
Rain delay date is the 26th

Fall Clean-up/Restoration project - Oct 5th

For the Fall of 2010 we will continue the project which the Stream Teams have pledged to continue, the restoration and construction of the Southgate Nature Center. We will complete our boulevard of trees, continue trail construction and help with the management of the woody debris in the Frank & Poet Creek which runs through the center.