The Reedy River Water Quality Group (RRWQG) was the featured topic at the June 8, 2016 Greenville Green Drinks gathering. [Read more…]
The purpose of the Cleveland Park stream restoration project is to perform ecological restoration activities while maintaining and enhancing the aesthetic qualities of Cleveland Park. The scope of work includes stabilizing severely eroding streambanks and reconnecting approximately 500 feet of a Reedy River tributary with its floodplain to promote water quality improvements in the area of the park between Woodland Way and Woodland Way Circle. [Read more…]
Over the last four years, Upstate Forever has coordinated with landowners and farmers in Walnut Creek, a Reedy River subwatershed near Ware Shoals, to complete on-the-ground projects that improve local water quality such as fencing cattle out of streams, providing alternate water sources for farm animals, and replacing failing septic tanks. [Read more…]
A rain garden was installed in Spring 2015 along the Reedy River near downtown Greenville by the Friends of the Reedy River (FoRR) in collaboration with a number of partners and supporters to demonstrate its use as a stormwater retrofit for an existing development site.
We stopped by Your Carolina on October 30th to talk about why we want folks to “Go Au Naturale”!
Go au naturale. Buffers don’t need to be bush-hogged, mown or sprayed – let it grow! A buffer zone is a wide strip of native grasses, plants, and trees along a river that protects water quality and provides important wildlife habitat. These areas are the last lines of defense against unwanted pollutants like pet waste, […]
Do what on your lawn? Wash your car! This summer, don’t worry about what your neighbors will say. Just get outside and do it on your lawn. Wash your car, that is… All innuendoes aside, the health of the Reedy River is no joke. Like most great cities, Greenville owes much of its success to […]
