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.
The Reedy River is getting healthier, and opportunities remain for one of the Upstate’s most recognized water bodies, according to a recent report card released by the Reedy River Water Quality Group (RRWQG), a local consortium of public and not-for-profit entities that monitors the watershed. The RRWQG and its member organizations partner with state and […]
In February over 70 stakeholders came together in a virtual room to learn about the latest RRWQG efforts. Enjoy the presentations from each committee by clicking the project scope image below to see the entire zoom meeting. We’ve come a long way and have been steadily moving forward even in the middle of a pandemic. […]
Due to eroding stream banks that included a recently exposed ReWa sanitary sewer line, Greenville County conducted a stream stabilization demonstration project on Brushy Creek. The erosion was located just upstream of a real-time County water quality monitoring station, providing a means to quantify potential reductions in sediment and nutrients due to various forms of […]
