Living Arroyos is a unique community engagement opportunity that renews and enhances urban stream and riparian (streamside) habitats and reconnects people and the arroyos in their community.
Our program is powered by volunteers. Do you like to plant trees, remove weeds, or care for plants? Volunteer today and be one of our local supporters!
Your local streams help protect neighborhoods from flooding, are an integral part of the community’s water supply system, and help counteract pollution. Still, our arroyos can be so much more.
Join us for our next volunteer workday and help clean up the creek in your back yard!
It’s been an entire Program year since we hosted our last volunteer event. Though we missed our volunteers terribly, it was a necessary step to protect the safety of our crew and our volunteers. The crew has been hard at work all this time, waiting for the right time to welcome back volunteers.
We are happy to say that we are back! Our first volunteer event is Sat. Dec. 4th which has already “sold out” but we are scheduling more events as fast as we can. Be sure to check our eventbrite page to RSVP for upcoming work days.
Events might look a little different as we get comfortable with new safety protocols, and ensuring that we’re following state and local guidelines to minimize risk. For the time being, please bring your own work gloves, snacks and water!
We are excited to announce that the City of Dublin has joined the Living Arroyos Program. The Program will be helping to reduce trash loads in Dublin through regular creek clean-ups of trash hotspots. Dublin will also be utilizing our sibling program the Adopt a Creek Spot, to provide creeks for local citizens and groups to adopt.
Join this FREE class to become a Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper. Become a recognized industry leader in sustainable landscaping and irrigation!
This two-week course features live online instruction four days per week with the highly acclaimed landscaping and irrigation expert: Lori Palmquist. Because we know everyone has different schedules, participants can choose the series that works best for them. Certifying exams will be offered for both series the week of Oct. 19th.
Evening Series Instruction Begins Monday, October 5th
*Access to the web-based Zoom application required. Minimal exam fee applies.
Who should attend: Landscape contractors and irrigation technicians, park and public agency maintenance staff, landscape architects and designers, and others interested in landscape water conservation.
What’s it about: The QWEL professional certification course provides education on water-saving sustainable landscaping principles, soils, plant water needs, irrigation system troubleshooting and audits, controller programming and more. QWEL is also recognized by U.S. EPA WaterSense. Learn more at https://www.qwel.net/
Questions: Please contact the California Water Efficiency Partnership (CalWEP), which was selected by water providers to implement QWEL training in the greater Bay Area: 916.552.5885 or bayqwel@calwep.org
WaterSense recognized: QWEL professional training is a proactive local approach to reducing landscape water use. It is recognized as a WaterSense labeled Professional Certification Program for Irrigation System Auditing and is a multi-year WaterSense Sustained Excellence award winner.
