With the melting away of snow in Spring, the creek banks are seen lightly littered with trash at various points along its route, especially in the areas around Wal-Mart and the Dairy Queen and Taco Bell. Currently, there are no trash bins installed at these sites.

The recommendation is to initiate an “Adopt a Stream” program in which businesses in the watershed commit to using their employees to pick up trash along a particular segment of the creek.   Not only would this approach help keep trash from building up along the creek, it would also help make business owners and managers more aware of the creek.   Judging from the limited amount of trash that appears to have accumulated over the winter, a couple of people could pick up the trash in fairly large segment of the stream within a couple of hours—so this would not be a particularly costly or burdensome chore.   The fact that this effort would keep the landscape clean and attractive would be good for businesses as well.  

Implementing this plan would involve dividing the stream up into segments and finding businesses or organizations willing to “adopt” a particular segment.   An educational annual trash pick-up day was considered as an option but the amount of trash did not appear to justify the effort. 

Developing the Huron Creek Watershed Management Plan