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<br /> Thought for the Day: Everyone Lives Downstream.
<br /> Welcome! For Dianna's Pond activities, call:
<br /> :0 Linda Van Cleave -688 -8084
<br /> :::::::::,.:44,: Welcome to the first issue of Streamlines, a newsletter Reta Anderson - 689 -5319
<br /> >< developed for the volunteers of the Eugene Stream Team. Richard Cundiff - 683 -1350
<br /> , 4i464b:::'::;•:.:::::',.::M:: : ::UNS This newsletter will highlight many of the Stream Team's What are the Eugene Stream
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<br /> accomplishments and keep readers informed of upcom-
<br /> a i ng events and programs. Team Volunteers Up To?
<br /> s The Stormwater Management Program of the City of No single profile fits all Stream Team volunteers. Here are
<br /> . Eugene sponsors the Eugene Stream Team, a volunteer a few examples of volunteers and the activities they've
<br /> ' program that brings citizens together to improve been involved in:
<br /> i § ; . stormwater quality, flood control, wetlands and Iris Sayre and Jo Dunsmoor provide office assistance
<br /> e natural resources within Eugene's city limits. working on data entry, monthly reports,filing, cataloging slides
<br /> and organizing events.
<br /> .4 What a Difference a Year Miranda and Sam Van Cleave, age 13 and 15,
<br /> Makes: assisted with a construction project involving filling and
<br /> The Belted Kingfisher is commonly In the fall of 1994 volunteers from throughout Eugene placing sandbags at Delta Ponds to repair a levee breach,
<br /> seen near lakes and streams. participated in the first activities of the Eugene Stream storm drain stenciling, and cleanups at both Dianna s Pond
<br /> kam. Since that time volunteers have: and Delta Ponds.
<br /> $ conducted eight clean up projects on Amazon Roy Titus led a bird walk and a clean up effort at
<br /> Creek, Delta Ponds and Dianna's Pond. Stewart Pond in West Eugene.
<br /> a< stenciled 1,475 storm drains. Gene Young and Alice Hoffman staffed the regis-
<br /> a► planted or removed vegetation at Camas Trail, tration table for clean up projects at Delta Ponds.
<br /> Willow Creek Wetlands, Delta Ponds, Eastern
<br /> Gateway Wetlands and Amazon Creek. f
<br /> a trained 22 pollution monitor volunteers. F � � v tf
<br /> a< helped six groups adopt various portions of y _
<br /> streams, ponds or wetlands for ongoing stewardship. , : N , p11
<br /> Friends of Dianna's Pond
<br /> Dianna's Pond, located near the Northwest Expressway .
<br /> and Maxwell Road (behind Kelly Middle School), is noted .
<br /> for its population of Western pond turtles. Through a n . . �
<br /> Friends of Dianna's Pond group the healthiness of the .
<br /> water and habitat are improving. Four work parties cleaned "Super Summer" class students participated in a
<br /> up debris and litter leftover from illegal camping and solarization project to promote growth of native
<br /> dumping that caused serious pollution of the pond. In vegetation for wetland areas.
<br /> addition to students and staff from Kelly Middle School,
<br /> adult volunteers and University of Oregon students have Chris McCuIIy, Richard Schellenger, Kakegawa
<br /> assisted. At least six truckloads and one dumpster of de- (Japan) Education Center of Oregon, Sheldon High
<br /> bris, and four car bodies were removed from the site. School, and the University of Oregon Student Associa-
<br /> The Eugene Stream Team is a tion each worked with groups that stenciled more than
<br /> volunteer service group of the City ol 100 storm drains.
<br /> Eugene Public Works Department Dorthe and Laura Pettigrew, mother and laugh -
<br /> which brings together citizens, i ter, are pollution monitors on the Upper Amazon Creek.
<br /> neighbors, civic groups, businesses ! _
<br /> 0 ,, Eric and Kevin Lynch, Margaret Wiese, Don
<br /> and local agencies to improve water � > � s�
<br /> r Hyers, Joan Bray and others collected seeds of tufted •
<br /> quality throughout the stormwater _ , k 3 �. " *' hair grass at Willow Creek Wetlands.
<br /> system. Stormwater user fees help t t'� Ted Rainy, pollution monitor, phoned in the first
<br /> fund the program, which is free an d pollution concern in his West Eugene neighborhood fol-
<br /> open to the public. lowing our training session.
<br /> STORMWATE R Volunteers at a Diana's Pond cleanup display their
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