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The Butt Stops Here

The Butt Stops Here is an ongoing cigarette butt watershed pollution reduction and education program that was initiated in 2010 by The Valley Women’s Club of San Lorenzo Valley’s Environmental Committee for the SLV. The program is intended to improve the health of the watershed by reducing the amount of cigarette butt litter entering it from streets that feed to storm drains that discharge to streams, creeks and the river, and ultimately to the ocean. Read more>>

Butt Seriously

When dropped on the pavement:

  • Butts are POISONOUS, a FIRE HAZARD, and are REALLY UGLY
  • Butts WASH DOWN into our creeks, rivers, and oceans
  • Butts POLLUTE THE WATER
  • Butts HARM deer, fish, frogs & other CRITTERS
  • Butts last YEARS in the Environment

Locations

Butt Receptacles are installed at these locations:

BOULDER CREEK
Boulder Creek Brewery & Cafe
Junction Park
Smoke Shop
Joe’s Bar
Jenna Su’s Café

BROOKDALE
Brookdale Post Office

BEN LOMOND
Henfling’s Tavern

FELTON
Don Quixote’s International Music Hall
SLV Redemption/Recycling Center
Felton Laundromat
Downtown sidewalk

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Keeping Butts Off the Ground

Posted on: August 12, 2014 1:01 am
Posted in Butt Stops Here

Colorful Critters Remind Us That What’s on the Ground Flows into the River

Two large grates near Junction Park in Boulder Creek are the first two of many that will be painted over storm drains to remind everyone that what is on the ground gets washed into the drains and then flows into the River and its tributaries, thus polluting them and threatening wildlife.

The VWC’s Environmental Committee for the SLV (represented by Mark and Quinn Becker) joined forces with the Boulder Creek 4-H Club (under the direction of Jennifer Hennig with 4-H’ers Dahlela Hennig, Quinn Becker, Rebekah Bowman, and Kassidy Gambelin) to paint colorful representation of riparian creatures – a crawdad and a turtle — over the grates. Plans for a fish on a downtown BC grate are in the works.

Painting supplies were funded by the SLV Water District Grant.