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2010 Public Education and Outreach Summary Car washing • Kits checked out three times • Distributed brochures about BMPs • Distributed 100 car wash vouchers Natural Yard Care with Tacoma/Pierce County Health Dept • Mailed 1,200 property owners to educate and invite to the workshop • Held series Sept 9, Oct 6, and Oct 13 • Averaged about 25 people in attendance at each of the 3 workshops • Surveys received about effectiveness of classes Rain Gardens - Workshop in 2010 – invited 500 homeowners in Puyallup - Educated everyone that receives City utilities about Puyallup’s Rain Garden Program - Distributed flyers to local businesses about rain gardens. - Used Ecology grant funding to do the following rain garden work: • Spinning Elementary Neighborhood Installations o 6 property owners (7 gardens total installed) o 2 classes of students involved in installation of 1 garden and “Stormwater Home Surveys” o Installed interpretive signs o Demonstrated car wash kit use o 2 articles written (TNT and Puyallup Herald) o Received various donations from the community (t-shirts, materials, etc) o 41 volunteers at the installation in June • 18th St SW Installations (Clarks Creek) o 6 rain gardens installed o Corresponded with streamside plantings o Installed interpretive signs o Gardening with Ciscoe broadcasted live o trained 1 new landscape contractor on rain garden installation o Porous paver driveway installation at one home o Class from Maplewood Elementary participated in 1 garden installation and other educational events o Free home energy audits for the neighborhood o Received various donations from the community (t-shirts, materials, etc) o 65 volunteers at the installation in September o Puyallup River Watershed Council, WSU Puyallup, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Classy Chasis all participated with booths at event. Streamside Care - The City received a $2,500 grant from the Pierce County Surface Water Management – Puyallup/Chambers-Clover Small Grants Program the results were as follows: • 500 streamside property owners were mailed and educated about streamside issues • 7 site visits and detailed education visits • 2 plantings along Clarks Creek (in conjunction with rain gardens) • Planted a large portion of the riparian area along Meeker Creek at the confluence of Meeker and Clark’s Creek (at the end of 18th St SW) - The 2010 Fall Cleanup Brochure was sent to all utility users and included information about improving water quality on Clark’s Creek ---PAGE BREAK--- - The City received a $9,600 grant from the Green Partnership Fund for Meeker-Silver Creek Riparian Restoration the results were as follows: o 543 native trees and shrubs planted o 4,000 feet of riparian habitat restored o 150+ community volunteers o 7 community events o New community recreational area Porous Pavement Helped fund installation of one porous pavement driveway at 18th St SW and install interpretive signage Stormdrain Markings o Met goal of over 1,000 stormdrain markings in 2010 (actually 1,379) o Updated GIS map records to reflect which catch basins are marked o All are mapped locations and number of volunteers are as follows: Date Location Volunteer Group # Volunteers # Marked June Spinning Elementary Stream Team 18 129 June Wildwood Park Stream Team 30 381 August Cascade Christian Campus Cascade Christian Summer Camp 47 47 August Manorwood Park Eagle Scout 25 360 August Sam Peach Park Intern 5 296 August Puyallup Business District Stream Team 1 146 September Wildwood Neighborhood Stream Team 2 20 128 1379 Media Coverage • King 5 TV News clip o 8th Ave NW rain gardens (October 26, 2010) • Puyallup Herald Articles o Editorial – More Rain Gardens Should be Welcome in Puyallup (February 16, 2011) • Tacoma News Tribune Articles o Garden Parties (June 16, 2010) o Puyallup on leading edge of stormwater research (article about WSU Puyallup and City on May 2, 2010) o Puyallup rain garden projects bring neighbors together • Sightline – Northwest Magazine o Soaking it up in Puyallup – blog post (November 12, 2010) o Curbing Stormwater and Creating Communities: The Case for Low-Impact Development – article (March 2011) • San Francisco Estuary Partnership (February 2011) o Permeable in Puyallup o Fish Friendly Car Wash Total number of events: 27