The headwaters of Davis Creek in Kanawha State Forest.
The Davis Creek Watershed Association is a non-profit, all-volunteer group working to improve environmental quality in the Davis Creek watershed in Kanawha County, West Virginia. We are located near Charleston and South Charleston on the south side of the Kanawha River.
MISSION STATEMENT
The goal of the Davis Creek Watershed Association is to protect and improve the environmental quality of the Davis Creek watershed through community action, education and outreach, and cooperative efforts with landowners, businesses, and governmental agencies.
Toward that goal, our volunteers conduct stream and roadside cleanups, remediation and reclamation of illegal dump sites, educational activities, work cooperatively with landowners to promote good land stewardship and, when necessary, work with appropriate local and state governmental agencies on law enforcement matters. We have conducted water quality monitoring since 1996 and we currently participate in the West Virginia Save Our Streams program, and West Virginia Make It Shine cleanup program.
OUR TRASH TALLY TO DATE: 314.32 tons of trash and 3,006+ tires.
The Davis Creek Watershed Association is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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Home30th ANNUAL SPRING CLEANUP HELD APRIL 12
The 30th annual Davis Creek Watershed spring cleanup was held on Saturday, April 12. The cold, gray early morning weather did not discourage the at least 21 people who participated in the cleanup. The group met at the W. Q. Watters Company shop at 8:30 for our customary warmup of coffee and donuts before branching out to go after the trash. And we did bash some trash!
With excellent community support we were able to remove a large amount of trash from the landscape. Preliminary statistics were 25 tires and about 2 1/2 tons of trash.
Over the past 30 years DCWA has "bagged" some unusual objects while hunting for trash. One year, thanks to Allen Marker's backhoe, we removed what turned out to be a huge, old, stolen Cadillac sedan (from Pennsylvania) from the creek. Another year we retrieved a golf cart from behind the FasChek market. This year we collected a broken boat that had washed down the creek during the winter flood.
Thanks to everyone who participated and supported the cleanup – The City of South Charleston, the WV Dept. of Environmental Protection, the REAP program, W. Q. Watters Company, Garcie R. Marker & Sons, B. Stanley Gill Company and Tami and Allen Marker, who hosted a hearty and delicious lunch for all the volunteers.
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DAVIS CREEK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
