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To enroll in the Euclid Creek Riparian Tree
and Shrub Planting Program, please complete this form and return it to CSWCD by Friday, February 20, 2015 per the instructions below.
In order to provide you with the correct number of 44125 OH View, Valley
6100 West Canal Rd. Canal West 6100 seedlings, please check the box below that corresponds to the length of stream on your property. 0—50 feet 50—100 feet 100—150 feet 150—200 feet
More than 200 feet
Do you own one side of the stream, or both sides? I own one side of the stream. I own both sides of the stream.
Name
Address
Phone
Please mail completed forms to:
Attn: Claire Posius 6100 West Canal Rd. Valley View, OH 44125
Nonprofit Org. Nonprofit Or you can fax or scan & email your form. OH Cleveland,
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PAID Contact Claire Posius, Euclid Creek 3666 Watershed Coordinator or visit website for details.
Phone: 216-524-6580 x16 Fax: 216-524-6584
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.EuclidCreekWatershed.org All property owners whose land contains or is The Euclid Creek Watershed consists of the entire area adjacent to any stream, river or other body of that drains to the Euclid Creek when it rains. This 24 surface water in the Euclid Creek Watershed are square-mile network of neighborhoods, forests, parks, encouraged to participate in the program. No roads and streams stretches 43 miles through all or a stream is too small! portion of 11 communities in northeastern Cuyahoga Simply fill out the Program Enrollment Form on As a riparian (streamside) County and a portion of Lake County. The Euclid the back page of this flyer and return it to the property owner, you have a Creek drains directly to Lake Erie. Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District special opportunity to (CSWCD) by Friday, February 20, 2015. restore the Euclid Creek and Seedlings, including Button Bush, Silky Dogwood, its tributaries. Swamp White Oak and Red Maple, among others, The Euclid Creek will be available and ready to plant in April 2015. Riparian Tree and Details about the distribution of the seedlings will Shrub Planting Program be sent to program participants in March. provides tree and shrub Not sure if you live in the Euclid Creek seedlings, and planting Watershed? Check out the watershed map at guidance free of charge to www.EuclidCreekWatershed.org or contact Claire streamside landowners in the Euclid Creek Posius, Euclid Creek Watershed Coordinator, at Watershed. The only requirement is that the 216-524-6580 x16 or [email protected]. seedlings be planted adjacent to the stream in order to establish a riparian buffer.
The Euclid Creek Riparian Tree and Shrub Planting The riparian area is the land alongside a stream or Program is made possible through a grant from the river that directly affects—or is affected by—the Lake Erie Protection Fund, which is administered water. A riparian buffer is a green corridor along a by the Ohio Lake Erie Commission. The Ohio Lake river or stream that separates the water from Erie Commission was established in 1990 to surrounding land uses. Healthy riparian buffers preserve Lake Erie's natural resources, the quality contain trees, shrubs, and other vegetation that of its waters and ecosystem, and to promote protects both the stream and streamside property. economic development within the region. In the Euclid Creek Watershed, as in many places The Lake Erie Protection Fund is supported by the throughout the world, many of our riparian buffers citizens of Ohio through tax-deductible donations have been cleared in order to make additional and by the purchase of the Lake Erie License Plate. space for lawns, houses, fields and roads. The lack $15 from the sale of each “Erie…Our Great Lake” of healthy riparian buffers has contributed to license plate goes directly to the Lake Erie stream bank instability and erosion, diminished Protection Fund. Visit your local deputy registrar water quality, and habitat degradation. or www.OPLATES.com to purchase the plates. Properly maintained riparian buffers states that restoring and protecting functioning stabilize stream banks, decrease high storm flows, filter nutrients and sediment from riparian corridors along the streams of the Euclid Creek storm water, provide essential habitat for is the single most important action that can be fish, birds, and other wildlife, and increase taken to maintain water quality in the stream and to property values. minimize problems from future development.