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From Watershed To EBMUD Ranger Virginia Northrop (left) and volunteers with Friends of Pinole Creek Watershed work to keep Pinole Creek free of trash. From Watershed to Bay As Creek to Bay Day and Coastal Cleanup Day approach on September 16, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) and partners along our watersheds, waterways and San Francisco Bay invite you to join us in taking action. Environmental protection starts right here at home in our beautiful East Bay! WWW.EBMUD.COM/CLEANBAY A SPECIAL MARKETING PUBLICATION You. In a Watershed. Volunteers with the Skyline Gardens Project work to restore the Skyline Trail area of the Oakland-Berkeley hills. VISIT EBMUD’S OPEN SPACE TRAILS AND ACCESS AND WATERSHEDS Enjoy expansive open space, wildlife-viewing opportunities, About 28,000 acres of watershed lands in the East Bay hiking and equestrian trails, and volunteer opportunities provide needed protection for high quality drinking along 80 miles of East Bay trails on our lands. Shimmering water, while offering habitat for plants and animals – lake views and streams, stately redwoods, colorful as well as a natural haven for the public to enjoy. wildflowers, wooded glens and open grasslands beckon. herever your feet land in the Utility District are stewards of the watersheds nature is right here in our backyards, and needs East Bay, you’re in a watershed that surround Briones, San Pablo, Upper San our help. Join a creek organization in your EBMUD’s watershed lands — largely protected from EXPLORE! Purchase a trail permit online at W — from the ridgelines and open Leandro, Chabot and Lafayette reservoirs, community and be a weekend environmental development and human disturbance — offer important EBMUD.com. $3.00/day or $10.00/1 year. space of the Oakland-Berkeley-San Leandro as well as the land of the Pinole Valley. warrior in the East Bay’s backyard. high quality habitat for a wide variety of plant and hills, to the creeks that meander through our animal species. These reservoirs also store high quality urban neighborhoods, to the waters of the San We’ve spent almost 100 years protecting Near every creek lies an urban watershed drinking water for 1.4 million East Bay residents. OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS Francisco Bay. These are the unique lands and these lands as a critical piece of our we call home. Whether off streets, or waterways that make the East Bay home. mission to deliver high quality drinking from sinks to sewers, every drop of East EBMUD biologists monitor fish, wildlife and plant Hands-on learning provides children experiences that water to you, and we welcome you to visit, Bay water flows to the Bay. Take action species on East Bay watershed lands, conducting habitat help them to better understand what it takes to protect The beauty around us deserves protection, explore, wander, learn and volunteer. at home to protect our precious Bay. assessments, population studies and other research to inform the environment, how natural systems function and and even in this urban metropolis you can management of sensitive species on the watershed. how our drinking-water supply relates to those systems. take part in keeping our watersheds and Bay From these lands flow creeks that drain to the Read on, and learn how you can protect the EBMUD rangers work with school-age children to enhance free from harm. We at the East Bay Municipal Bay. These natural pathways remind us that environment right here in the East Bay. habitats, stabilize soils, and restore natural conditions for creeks and disturbed areas in the East Bay. Contact EBMUD at [email protected] to find out more! OPEN SPACE RESERVOIRS CREEKS HOMES STREETS SEWERS STORMDRAINS BUSINESSES WASTEWATER TREATMENT SAN FRANCISCO BAY 2 FROM WATERSHED TO BAY EBMUD.COM EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT EBMUD.COM FROM WATERSHED TO BAY 3 n the hills of the East Bay, Briones, San Pablo, Upper San Leandro, Comprised of local government agencies, the Alameda Countywide and Chabot reservoirs hold drinking water for East Bay residents. Clean Water Program works to prevent pollution to waterways ILocal runoff from precipitation, along with supplies from the throughout Alameda County. Since its inception in 1991, the Mokelumne River, is stored in East Bay reservoirs before treatment program has been monitoring the health and water quality of the and delivery to customers, and to ensure local water supplies are county’s creeks, and has worked with the community to keep available in an emergency. In a year of normal precipitation, the East the water entering the storm drains as clean as possible. Bay gets 10 percent of our water supply from local watersheds. Litter is only one among many pollutants. Cars leak fl uids on Though managed for water supply, these reservoirs each provide the road, soapy water is dumped into the gutter, and rain washes water to creeks; some year-round and some only following prolonged garden chemicals off the lawn and into storm drains; it all adds heavy rainfall. And during rain events, each reservoir helps up to a signifi cant toxic injection into our local waterways. minimize high creek fl ows by collecting local watershed rainfall, and when needed, releasing that water downstream between Some simple practices are all that are needed to keep the East storms when local creeks have capacity to transport extra fl ow. Bay’s waterscapes beautiful and healthy, and to protect plants, birds, fi sh, insects and other wildlife that live there. Picking up after your dog, controlling pests with non-toxic alternatives HOW TRASH AND POLLUTANTS END and sweeping instead of hosing down your driveway are just UP IN OUR CREEKS AND BAY a few of the actions the Clean Water Program promotes. Living in an urban environment, it’s easy to forget how closely During this year’s Coastal Cleanup Day, the Clean Water Program’s connected we are to our local creeks and the Bay. That is until focus is on litter, by encouraging residents to participate in large amounts of litter end up on our shorelines after a storm. cleanup events, raising awareness about the harm litter does Surprisingly, most of this debris originates inland on our streets. and how to prevent it. For more information and tips to keep our waterways clean visit www.CleanWaterProgram.org. Rains can wash plastic bags and cups, cigarette butts and other trash Reservoirs to Creeks off the streets and into storm drains. From there, the litter is carried directly into our creeks, wetlands and the Bay, without any treatment. LOCAL PINOLE EL SOBRANTE RICHMOND BERKELEY - OAKLAND SAN LEANDRO CREEK & Friends of Pinole Creek SPAWNERS — San Pablo The Watershed Project Friends of Five Creeks The Skyline Gardens Project Friends of Sausal Creek Friends of San Watershed (FOPCW) Neighbors Education and The mission of the Watershed Project All-volunteer Friends of Five Creeks Skyline Gardens is a combination botanical For more than 20 years, the Friends of Leandro Creek WATERSHED Pinole Creek has a watershed of Restoration Society is to inspire Bay Area communities to has worked for the health of urban survey and restoration project in the Skyline Sausal Creek has worked to restore and The Friends of San Leandro Creek is a approximately 15 square miles and is some The mission of SPAWNERS is to protect understand, appreciate and protect our environments since 1996, supporting Trail area of the Oakland–Berkeley Hills. maintain the ecology and natural beauty community group made up of dedicated GROUPS of the best steelhead habitat in the Bay the San Pablo Creek Watershed and inspire local watersheds. Volunteer workdays healthy creeks, watersheds, and nature It’s the most botanically diverse area of of the Sausal Creek Watershed in central citizens, students, and businesses interested are every 2nd Saturday on the Richmond from Berkeley to Richmond. In year-round its size (about 250 acres) in the entire Oakland. A community-based volunteer Get connected! Many volunteer- Area. Stretching from the San Pablo Bay up community appreciation and stewardship in the protection and enhancement of into the Briones hills, it includes the City of Greenway, 10 am-1 pm. Please join us in work parties, we plant, weed, and remove East Bay. Nearly 250 native species have organization, we protect sensitive habitats, San Leandro Creek, and in learning more led groups work year-round to through advocacy, education, and habitat Pinole as well a large unincorporated area restoration. Volunteer work parties are our garden and enjoy being out in nature on trash, lead walks and fun citizen-science been identifi ed so far, with ten newly monitor water quality and wildlife, restore about the creek’s ecology. Meetings are protect local creeks and watershed upstream where predominant land uses held every 3rd Saturday in El Sobrante, the Richmond Greenway for our monthly events including mapping and monitoring. discovered this year. Sponsored by the creek banks and canyons, grow and plant the second Tuesday of every other month lands. They depend on dedicated are agriculture and open space. FOPCW 9:30 am-noon. Join us at one of our riparian Second Saturday event. We plant and tend We post our lively e-news, host speakers East Bay Chapter of the California Native native plants, educate our neighbors in and are held from 7-8 p.m. Guest speakers East Bay residents like you. For works to keep that watershed healthy and habitat restoration sites to learn about to unique low impact design projects that at our fall-spring Bay Currents talk series, Plant Society in collaboration with EBMUD, environmental stewardship, and work with are often invited to our meetings. Join the opportunities and events, contact accessible.
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