Plaster Creek Stewards is a collaboration of Calvin College faculty and staff working with local churches and community partners to restore health and beauty to the Plaster Creek Watershed.
Plaster Creek Stewards: working to restore our watershed
Read our Newsletter!
Starting this fall, we will be releasing a newsletter twice a year.
Plaster Creek Stewards win $58,500 EPA grant
We have been selected by The River Network and Groundwork USA to receive a $58,500 grant from the EPA! These funds will help us in our education and outreach efforts, including creating partnerships between schools and churches upstream and downstream in the watershed. For more information, read articles about the grant in the Grand Rapids Press and on Calvin’s website.
Tell us your memories and stories
We have begun collecting oral histories from people of all ages who remember Plaster Creek recently or from long ago. If you have lived, worked, worshipped, studied, or played in the watershed and have stories to tell, we'd love to interview you. Please contact Dr. Gail Heffner at gheffner@calvin.edu.
When it Rains it Pours: Where Rain Goes
We held our fall community event on Saturday, October 22. We focused on stormwater and its impacts on our watershed. We began with a short presentation at the Bunker Interpretive Center and then headed out into the field. Some of us worked in the Alger Heights neighborhood to mark storm drains with 'Dump No Waste' icons--we stenciled about 50 storm drains total! others of us planted native wildflowers in a roadside drainage area at a farm in Caledonia. Native plants in places like this help filter water as it flows toward the creek, and will allow it to soak into the soil instead of running directly into the creek. Stay tuned for our next community event in spring 2012!