Properly maintaining your septic system helps to reduce pollution and keep our drinking water clean. We can provide you with care instructions and resources.
The pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers used in landscaping can be extremely hazardous to the health of the watershed. Make sure you know what’s being put on your lawns and how it will affect water quality.
Know your neighbors
Find out what is is happening in your neighborhood and make sure all land use activities provide adequate and appropiate designs and management measures to minimize silt bearing runoff that is harmful to water quality and habitat. it is being done in a way that protects qater quality, and optimizes the protection of open space. Forests provide maximum protection of water quality, so find out what can be done to preserve and protect them.
Join the growing community of people taking action to protect our precious natural resources. Go to local planning meetings, volunteer for conservation organizations, or become a member of the MRWC.
Email us at: info@mianusriver.org
Donate Your Time and Talent
Things you can do....in as little as a day. Give us a call! Get involved! It may become so fulfilling, you'll get addicted. Activities needing your help. Membership - if you enjoy meeting people, membership can use your help.
Publications, Writing, Watershed Planning -
Publicity - if you enjoy seeing your hard work in the news, publicity can use your help.
Stream Walk Assessments - if you enjoy getting your feet wet (literally) and want to explore the Mianus River and its tributaries to document opportunities for improvements, we need your help.
Education Programs - if you enjoy planning and coordinating seminars and workshops on a variety of environmental topics, we need your help.
Land Use Planning Advocacy - if you enjoy public speaking to advocate for better decisions by planning and zoning decisionmakers to protect open space, protect water quality and stream habitat and the quality of human life as well, we need your help.
Finance - if you enjoy developing email and mail lists of members and donors to fund our mission we need your help.
Grant Writing - if you are a reasonably good writer with a good background in environmental studies (including passion) and enjoy bringing funds for interesting environmental projects, we need your help.
