The last couple of months have been busy ones for Shoal Creek Conservancy, with progress made in the implementation of our Watershed Action Plan.
- Shoal Creek Conservancy, in collaboration with TreeFolks and Cirrus Logic, planted 400 tree saplings in the riparian buffer north of 10th St.
- SCC has been developing a maintenance pilot program for green stormwater infrastructure called Rain Garden Adopters.
- We will kick off this program in the coming months when we take over the maintenance of three existing rain gardens in the watershed.
- Austin Transportation Department will build 3 new rain gardens along Shoal Creek Boulevard; SCC will plant and maintain through the maintenance pilot program.
- SCC making plans to install 2 rain gardens and 1 riparian buffer planting in the Pease Park area.
- Since January 2022, The Other Ones Foundation has completed 5 cleanups in the Lower Shoal Creek area between Lady Bird Lake and West Avenue, removing over 1775 lbs of trash.
- SCC has hosted 4 public watershed cleanups since January 2022 where we leveraged over 75 volunteer hours to remove trash and recyclables from the Creek. The Shoal Creek headwaters at Hwy 183 have been a major focus.
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Next Steering Committee Meeting- April 26th
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Our next Steering Committee meeting will be held virtually at 1pm on Tuesday, April 26th, 2022. Steering committee meetings are open to all watershed stakeholders. Join the meeting here. Meeting agenda can be viewed here. As well as general updates, we will be discussing CoA Watershed Protection Department's Rain to River strategic plan.
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Join us in April and May for a creekside tour or a volunteer creek cleanup! We will be partnering with the Austin Geological Society to offer a Geology and Fossil Tour along Shoal Creek on Saturday, April 30th. There will be volunteer creek cleanup opportunities on April 22nd, May 6th, and May 21st. We will also be partnering with Austin Astronomical Society for an Urban Night Sky Tour featuring a total lunar eclipse on May 15th!
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The Shoal Creek Watershed Action Plan is a cooperative project funded in part by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality through a Clean Water Act, Section 319(h) Nonpoint Source Management grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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