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: 307.98 tons of trash and 2,888+ tires.
The Davis Creek Watershed Association is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
HomeFALL CLEANUP NEWS
Our fall watershed cleanup was held on Saturday, October 26. We gathered at the W. Q. Watters Company parking lot on Kanawha State Forest Drive at 8:30 and warmed up with some hot coffee and fresh donuts. There were at least 14 volunteers participating in this year's cleanup.
Our first project was to tackle the trash around the Middle Fork bridge, both in and around the creek, and on the abandoned trailer site just across the creek.
By noon between one and two tons of trash, including about 12 tires, had been collected. Another five bags of trash were collected the following week by our college student neighbor Josiah Martin.
Thanks to our local business partners and volunteers from across the watershed we had another successful cleanup.
DAVIS CREEK WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
