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.