Rain Gardens
Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…
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Rain Barrels and Cisterns
Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…
Importance of Protecting Green Space
Preserving natural ecosystems has many benefits. Healthy watersheds provide services like water filtration and storage, air filtration, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, soil formation, recreational value, food, and timber. Yet our…
Why Plant Native?
Healthy waterways begin in our own backyards, where the choices we make about landscaping and stormwater can have a lasting impact downstream. Before roads, rooftops, and parking lots were built,…
Bioretention Areas
Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…
Tinker’s Creek Needs Your Support
Dear Friend and Supporter, Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners (TCWP) would like to thank you for your support. Contributions from supporters have helped us to implement our mission to protect and…
Natural Feature in the Streetsboro Provides Habitat to Rare Species
Natural Feature in the City Provides Habitat to Rare Species The City of Streetsboro has a very special ecological and stormwater resource called Herrick Fen State Nature Preserve. The preserve…
2015 Past events
Rain Barrel Workshop–September 22, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, Macedonia City Hall Watershed Festival–October 3, 9 am to 1 pm, UH Ahuja Medical Center, Beachwood Cleveland Seed Bank Workshop–October 17,…
Partnership Helps to Protect Greenspace in Bedford
This project is an example of dedicated property owners and multiple agencies including the City of Bedford, the Cuyahoga Land Bank, Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners (TCWP), and West Creek Conservancy…
New Year, New Yard – Alternatives to a ‘perfect’ green lawn
Join TCWP and NEO PIPE on Tuesday, March 31 at 6:30 pm in Beachwood, Ohio as we host a special presentation, “New Year – New Yard: Alternatives to the ‘perfect’…