The Watershed Project

The Watershed Project The Watershed Project is committed to inspiring Bay Area communities to understand, appreciate, and protect local watersheds.

Learn more by watching an Introduction to the Watershed Project
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWatershedProject /a/u/0/H4mm1rFknCU

🥾🦋“Itʻs a beautiful time hiking with friends!”Environmental Education: Finding ✨Joy in Nature and 🌿Nature is a Joy! 🎐Wha...
06/05/2026

🥾🦋“Itʻs a beautiful time hiking with friends!”
Environmental Education: Finding ✨Joy in Nature and 🌿Nature is a Joy! 🎐

What stands out to me most in ✏K-12 education is how quickly small moments can grow into profound new perspectives. A single 🤔question can lead to a deeper understanding, and that understanding can shape how a student sees their role in the world. 🌎🤲

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1: “Itʻs a beautiful time hiking with friends!” Students hiking along Wildcat Creek on an Alvarado Park field trip, friends supporting each other while on the trails. PC: Stephanie Romano
2: TWPʻs Green Infrastructure Design Challenge, high school students learn about capturing rainwater with green infrastructure! PC: Maggie Chen
3: Using hand lenses for bug exploration, binoculars for birding! Students begin to build a sense of curiosity while in nearby nature and care for their local watershed. PC: Maggie Chen

👓 Read more on this Ebb and Flow article, "Environmental Education: Finding Joy in Nature and Nature is a Joy!" by Ariana Acosta and Maggie Chen, on our website linked in bio.

🐚🎉 Join us for our 30th Anniversary Silent Auction! Travel experiences (Mexico, New Orleans, 🌌 Northern Lights in Icelan...
06/03/2026

🐚🎉 Join us for our 30th Anniversary Silent Auction!

Travel experiences (Mexico, New Orleans, 🌌 Northern Lights in Iceland), 🍾Wine tastings🍷, and much more!

This Silent Auction directly supports 🌇 vibrant neighborhoods, 🌿climate equity, and 🌎 nature-based solutions.

Silent Auction is now open - check it out, linked here: https://www.32auctions.com/twp30

🪲🌿 We conducted the Benthic Macroinvertebrate survey in Wildcat Creek!Benthic macroinvertebrates (BMI) are 🔍small animal...
06/03/2026

🪲🌿 We conducted the Benthic Macroinvertebrate survey in Wildcat Creek!

Benthic macroinvertebrates (BMI) are 🔍small animals living among stones, 🪵logs, sediments, and aquatic plants on the bottom (benthos) of streams, rivers, and lakes. They are large enough to be seen with the naked eye (macro) and have no backbone (invertebrate). Looking at the BMI assemblage of a 🌊 water body allows us to evaluate long-term trends in watershed health, rather than the momentary snapshot in time that we get from measuring 🌡 temperature once a month.
We found a lot of good signs of bugs that can tell this creek is healthy, but at the same time, we found New Zealand 🐌 mud snail, which is a highly invasive species.
Thanks very much for joining our survey! We had great volunteers who helped with this survey with their enthusiasm! 🙏✨








East Bay Public Gardens Open House 🌿✨June 6 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pmWe are so excited to be an official stop on EBMUD’s Sust...
05/28/2026

East Bay Public Gardens Open House 🌿
✨June 6 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
We are so excited to be an official stop on EBMUD’s Sustainable Landscapes public gardens tour!

Please come by our Baxter Creek bioswale at the Booker T Anderson Community Center to talk to our restoration team about what’s in the garden and how it supports 🪶 birds in neighboring Baxter Creek, and to meet some like-minded gardeners.

This is a self-paced tour with locations around the East Bay. See the full map on our website linked in bio.

🍓🌳 What’s in Your Watershed: Strawberry Trees! 🌱🤲The Strawberry Tree is one of my favorite trees. When ripe, the fruit r...
05/19/2026

🍓🌳 What’s in Your Watershed: Strawberry Trees! 🌱🤲

The Strawberry Tree is one of my favorite trees. When ripe, the fruit releases a perfume scent and has a sweet and sour taste. It has various uses in the culinary world from making jams to be spread on 🥪 bread, syrups drizzled on pastries, berry 🍪 cookies, and cultural drinks like Medronho from Spain and Portugal. The madrone berry, with its distinctive bright red🍒 color and wide variety of culinary uses, is wonderfully versatile.

✨Read more on this Ebb and Flow article, "What’s in Your Watershed: Strawberry Trees!" by Ismael Leon, on our website linked in bio.

Wildcat Creek is more than a waterway—it’s a living, shared landscape that connects communities, ecosystems, and stories...
05/13/2026

Wildcat Creek is more than a waterway—it’s a living, shared landscape that connects communities, ecosystems, and stories across the 🌄East Bay. Since launching nine Water Level Monitoring (WLM) stations along the creek this January, The Watershed Project has received over 350 community submissions, each one reflecting a growing curiosity and 🤲 care for this local watershed.

What makes this project especially powerful is that it brings together 🌱science and storytelling. By pairing real-time environmental monitoring with original 🎨artwork from local artists, the WLM stations invite people not just to observe the creek, but to experience it—through color, memory, and perspective. Together, these stations transform data into something tangible, personal, and rooted in place.

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🌳 1: Wildcat Creek at Alvarado Park by John Wehrle
🪻 2: Vale Road by Sadiqeh Agah
🪶 3: Jewel Lake by Obi Kaufmann

Read more on this Ebb and Flow article, "From Creek to Canvas to Community: Join the Wildcat Bingo Challenge" by Natalie Matias and Jennifer Lopez, on our website linked in bio.

🌧Right in Time”: A Rain Garden Takes Root 🌱“We finished right in time,” Azucena, one of the Green Collar Corps interns s...
05/13/2026

🌧Right in Time”: A Rain Garden Takes Root 🌱

“We finished right in time,” Azucena, one of the Green Collar Corps interns said, brushing mulch into place as we added the final touches to a newly completed rain garden. 🌾 She was glancing at the weather forecast on her phone, and rain was on the way.

In cities like Richmond, where paved 🌇 surfaces dominate, heavy rainfall can quickly overwhelm stormwater systems. Rain gardens offer a practical, 🍂 nature-based solution to ease pressure on drainage systems and lower the risk of localized flooding.

In a time when the future can feel uncertain, moments like this offer something steady. There is deep satisfaction in working with your 🤲 hands, in collaboration with others, to create something that benefits both people and the planet. The rain did come. And this little yard was ready.

🌧 Read more on this Ebb and Flow article, “Right in Time”: A Rain Garden Takes Root" by River Allen, on our website linked in bio.

🌱Only you can help with our data collection! 🤲✨We are so grateful for your support! We can not collect our long-term dat...
04/23/2026

🌱Only you can help with our data collection! 🤲✨
We are so grateful for your support! We can not collect our long-term data without YOU!
We hosted Oyster Monitoring last Sunday and Monday, part of Earth Day 🌎🌿 We walked through the mudflats in Point Pinole Shoreline Park with waders and counted Olympia oysters! 🦪🥾
The Olympia oyster is the only oyster that is native to the west coast of North America. We talked a lot about oysters and TWP oyster restoration and monitoring, how their populations relate to the environment, etc.
The fun part of this event is that we saw some other marine creatures, such as 🦀crab, mussels, anemone, 🪱worms, eggs, egrets 🪶, Turkish towel (seaweed), and leftovers from human activities (fishing wire 🎣 and trash)
If you are interested in community science volunteer opportunities, please sign up here and work together! 🌾☀️

https://thewatershedproject.org/volunteer-sign-up/

🎉🌎 Another Earth Day in the books! We loved celebrating with you all last Saturday at the Lucky Aʻs ballpark 🌿It was so ...
04/23/2026

🎉🌎 Another Earth Day in the books! We loved celebrating with you all last Saturday at the Lucky Aʻs ballpark 🌿

It was so sweet to see our eager volunteers kicking off the day with a creek cleanup! 🍂🥾With the help of our partners Urban Tilth and SOS Richmond, we hauled out over 1300 pounds of trash, nearly 1000 gallons! Not bad for a morning's work 💪✨

Then we rolled into the festival. With booths highlighting groundwater impact, creek health as it ties to upstream water and downstream, native seed packet making, and so much more we really got to celebrate the natural gifts and learn more about local stewardship for our Richmond watershed! 🤲⛰

Happy Earth Day! We are celebrating EE Week alongside environmental educators nationwide 🌎✨Check out our Green Infrastru...
04/23/2026

Happy Earth Day! We are celebrating EE Week alongside environmental educators nationwide 🌎✨

Check out our Green Infrastructure Design Challenge that we did with our students where they learn about how to effectively absorb and capture rainwater 🌧🏙 with green infrastructure to decrease runoff, prevent flooding, and reuse water during drier months of the year!

We’re cultivating the next generation of watershed stewards and environmental leaders through hands-on education, field trips, curriculum development, and workforce training. 🌿🤲 This kind of integration—bringing ecology, community, hands-on stewardship—is what distinguishes TWP’s work from conventional environmental programming.

Thirty years ago, The Watershed Project had a simple, radical idea–that Richmond's creeks, neighborhoods, and people belong together. And that when communities come together to care for their local watersheds, everybody thrives.
That's what watershed protection looks like in Richmond.


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