Big Creek Watershed News & Notes - a selection

2024 Year End

2023 Year End

2022 Year End

• Stickney Creek restoration
• School stream monitoring program
• Cleveland Land Bridge / West Shoreway Concept Alternatives
• Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Mini-conference
• Big Creek / I-71 Relocation & Restoration
  Initiative update

2021 Year End

• Green Infrastructure Grant projects: Art House Green Campus, Barrio Commissary Green Campus
• Stickney Creek restoration
• School stream monitoring
• Stormwater control
• Trails & Greenways Summit

2020 Year End

• Big Creek Signage project
• Storm and wastewater
• Projects update
• Brighton Park and trail connections

Fall 2019

• Barrio and Caribe green infrastructure projects
• Stream monitoring program adds 3rd school and summer program for the public
• Stickney Creek restoration and Brookside parking lot retrofit

Spring 2019

• Big Creek Stream Monitoring Program adds another school
• Caribe Bakery green infrastructure project
• Other projects in the “pipeline”

Fall 2017

• Stream signage project
• Brooklyn Intermediate School students "get wet" in Big Creek
• Watershed based strategic pollution plan

October 2015 issue

• Organization founded as Friends of Big Creek celebrates its 10-year anniversary! Develops new wide-ranging planning initiative
• Big Creek Created Wetland Project: Green infrastructure construction is complete!

March 2015 issue

• Friends of Big Creek makes name change: New name and new wide-ranging planning initiative
• Big Creek Created Wetland Project: Green infrastructure construction is underway!

Spring/Summer 2012 issue

• Important Big Creek parcels in Brooklyn acquired: Big Creek Land Conservation Fund established
• Big Creek Balanced Growth Plan receives State endorsement:
  5th endorsed plan, most urban to date
• Board member donates “headwaters” property in North Royalton
• Big Creek Watershed Stormwater Retrofit Ranking project
• Recent memberships
• Conservation Fund contributors
• Upcoming events

Winter/Spring 2011 issue

• Big Creek Watershed communities support Balanced Growth initiative: plan now on way to state endorsement
• Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference
• Big Creek Watershed annual clean-ups--getting wet and dirty for good
• Rain barrel workshops
• Big Creek Greenway and Trail study online
• FOBC awarded Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District operating support grant
• FOBC brochure available
• Why stormwater matters
• Parkview Elementary/Parma High School Native Wildflower Restoration Project
• Upcoming events

Spring/Summer 2009 issue

• Lower Big Creek Plan promotes future of Old Brooklyn's "hidden asset"
• Big Creek Watershed Management Plan nears completion
• What is Balanced Growth?
• Celebrating 40 years of Cuyahoga River recovery
• Lower Big Creek Greenway Redevelopment & Restoration Plan: Overall Map
• Brooklyn's Big Creek Trail Plan completed -- will link Parkway with Zoo
• Rain barrel workshops popular
• FOBC hosts first symposium
• Big Creek Greenway Trail Alignment & Neighborhood Connector Plan: Overall Master Plan
• Gardin & Brennan among CSWCD Awardees
• Our watersheds, our homes
• Big Creek Watershed Stormwater Management Improvement Project
• Upcoming events

Fall/Winter 2007 issue

• Partners undertake Big Creek Trail Alignment study through the City of Brooklyn
• Parma’s Evergreen Lake residents begin water quality monitoring
• Big Creek communities undertake Watershed Management Plan
• Environmental inventory and assessment of Brooklyn “Oxbow” area
• Big Creek RiverDay event: Where the Waters Meet
• Conserving Busch “Snake Hill” natural area
• Big Creek clean-ups
• Calendar
• Trail Alignment Areas of Study