The link above will take you to Flickr photo site for more photos of Tanglewood Branch, one of Fayetteville's at-risk streams in the Town Branch watershed portion of the watershed of Beaver Lake. The construction work shown is being done under old ordinances that encourage curb and gutter and the piping of water directly to streams. Proposed ordinances would encourage street- and sidewalk- and trail-builders to keep the water where it falls to allow it to soak in and be cleansed by the absorbent prairie soil in the riparian and flood-plain portions of our urban streams
STREAMSIDE PROTECTION EDUCATION AND INPUT WORKSHOPS (FREE)
The City of Fayetteville will host two public education and input workshops on streamside protection on March 6 and March 10, 2010. The Nutrient Reduction Plan, completed in April 2009 as part of an Agreement with Beaver Water District and the City of Fayetteville, recommends the development and implementation of a streamside protection ordinance. This ordinance is part of a series of recommendations designed to reduce pollution in all the City’s waterways, which will improve the health of the City’s streams and reduce the costs of treating drinking water.
The workshops will include an educational presentation, a policy discussion and followed by a short fieldtrip to College Branch, a local stream located at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Razorback Avenue. Some of the questions City staff will ask attendees include:
1) What streams should have some sort of buffer protection?
2) What activities should be allowed or prohibited in the protected areas?
Attendees will need to provide their own transportation to the stream site and should wear appropriate clothing for walking along a stream bank. The presentations will be held at the City Administration Building located at 113 W. Mountain Street in Room 111.
Date: Saturday, March 6
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Place: Room 111, City Administration Building
Date: Wednesday, March 10
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Place: Room 111, City Administration Building
For more information:
Karen Minkel
Strategic Planning and Internal Consulting Director
(479) 575-8271
kminkel@ci.fayetteville.ar
The workshops will include an educational presentation, a policy discussion and followed by a short fieldtrip to College Branch, a local stream located at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Razorback Avenue. Some of the questions City staff will ask attendees include:
1) What streams should have some sort of buffer protection?
2) What activities should be allowed or prohibited in the protected areas?
Attendees will need to provide their own transportation to the stream site and should wear appropriate clothing for walking along a stream bank. The presentations will be held at the City Administration Building located at 113 W. Mountain Street in Room 111.
Date: Saturday, March 6
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Place: Room 111, City Administration Building
Date: Wednesday, March 10
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Place: Room 111, City Administration Building
For more information:
Karen Minkel
Strategic Planning and Internal Consulting Director
(479) 575-8271
kminkel@ci.fayetteville.ar
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment