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2010 City of
Loveland
Spring Clean-Up
Kelsey McCarty
and Zack Shelley at the Forum's sign-in station at the
Thompson School District building in Loveland.
Unlike
last year, the weather cooperated nicely for us this
year. Although it was a bit on the cool side, the rain
held off until the event was completely over. As a
result, we recorded our largest turnout of volunteers and
we removed more trash this year than we have since the
event began 8 years ago. A total of 264 Volunteers,
counting 14 staff members from the City of Loveland & the
Forum participated in the event in which nearly 10 Tons of
trash was collected. A wide and varied assortment of trash
was removed from the following waterways:
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Dry Creek, between 37th St.
and Horseshoe Lake;
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The Lake Loveland Outlet Ditch that
runs between lake Loveland and the confluence of Dry Creek;
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The Big Thompson River between Wilson
and Taft Avenues;
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The Big Thompson River out at Sylvan
Dale Ranch;
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The Chubbuck (Greeley/Loveland)
Irrigation Ditch, from Washington Ave. out to the Boyd
Lake Treatment Plant east of Denver Ave.;
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The Dry Creek headwaters along Taft
Ave. R.O.W. located ½ mile north of 57th
St. & Taft Ave.;
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The Jay Hawker Ponds (Forum sign-in
location);
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Ryan Gulch between 14th St.
and the confluence of the Big Thompson River,
(Forum sign-in location) and;
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The Big Barnes Ditch from 8th
St. to Lake Loveland.
Jayhawker Ponds cleanup crews
enjoying the day and doing a great
job!
In addition to the familiar assortment of
cans, bottles and plastic items that always seem to end up
in our waterways the volunteers removed more than two
dozen shopping carts, several tires, one of which was believed to have come from a large tractor of some sort, a
water logged couch, a tent, construction materials, an
engine block, along with all sorts of other trash and
manmade materials.
The volunteer groups that participated in
this year’s event were: the Bill Reed Middle School; the
Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch; the Reflections for Youth; CSUnity Students from Delta, Delta, Delta and Gamma Phi
Beta Sororities; the Wal-Mart Distribution Center; the
Northern Colorado Covenant of the River; the Conrad Ball
Middle School National Honor Society; the Thomas Valley
High School Honor Society, and; the Vineyard Church in Loveland.
2010 Spring
Cleanup Flyer
2009 Big Thompson River
Fall Clean-Up
The
City of Loveland and Big Thompson Watershed Forum held its
annual Fall clean-up on Saturday,
September 26, 2009, from 9:00 to
noon.
Kelsey McCarty checking out the Greeley
riparian trailer...eeww, what's this?
City of Loveland
stormwater puppet show
Forum and Loveland Water
and Power booths
Jim Loftis on his way to
set a trash pick-up record
Great job!
Greeley riparian
trailer....flood simulation getting a lot attention
Zack and Kelsey checking
physical parameters on the Big T.
John Fraser giving a
safety talk before a crew heads out
Great job II!
Judy
Billica and John Fraser discussing how good the popcorn was this
year....Kelly Leedy in the background seems to agree
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For more information or to volunteer,
click on the flyer below.....
2009 Big Thompson Fall Clean-Up
or email/call....
stormwater@ci.loveland.co.us
; 962-2775, 962-2794
2008 10th Annual Meeting
October 28, 2008
2008 Annual Meeting Program
Held at the
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
The
Forum's 10th Annual Meeting, 'Voices from the Watershed'
was held on Tuesday, October 28th, at Northern Water in Berthoud,
Colorado. The Forum would like to thank all of our presenters,
local residents, city and county officials and scientists who attended!
And thanks to Northern Water for hosting this year's meeting.
View the 2008 Agenda & Presentations:
2008 Big Thompson Fall Cleanup
October 11th, 2008
2008 Big T. Fall Cleanup
2008 Spring Waterway
Cleanup
City of Loveland Public Works/ Storm Water
April 19, 2008
Board of Director Elections
January 2009
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