Text Box: Text Box: The Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition is continuing the tradition of public involvement in watershed and creek issues started by the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society with our First Annual Creek and Watershed Conference to be hosted at Pioneer High School’s (PHS) Performing Arts Center (PAC), 1290 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose, 95118, November 17, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Registration is required for lunch. Text Box:

Agenda

· Improve outreach on creek and watershed issues, and seek to involve individuals and groups that have not been involved before.

· Highlight the past and present activities of local groups.

· Identify the functions and responsibilities of creek-related organizations (city, county, watershed  and environmental education organizations).

· Explore the historical conditions in our creeks and watersheds to better understand the challenges and opportunities that we face today.
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Plans and Desired Outcomes
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Conference Sponsors

Children’s Discovery Museum

Citizens for a Livable San Jose

City of San Jose

City of Sunnyvale

Clean Water Team

Coastal Habitat Education & Environmental Restoration

Committee for Green Foothills

Federation of Flyfishers

Flycasters Inc.

Guadalupe Coyote RCD

Hooked On Nature

Patrick Kwok

Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter, Water Committee

Oakland Museum of California 

Pioneer High School 

San Francisco Estuary Institute

San Francisquito Watershed Council 

Santa Clara Basin Watershed Management Initiative

Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society

Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff
Pollution Prevention Program

Santa Clara Valley Water District

South Valley Streams For Tomorrow

Stevens & Permanente Creeks Watershed Council

The Volunteer Monitor

The Watershed Project

 

Directions:

Take Hwy. 85 to Almaden Expressway exit south. Turn right on Blossom Hill Road. PHS is at the corner of Blossom Hill & Croydon Avenue.  Park in the rear and walk north to the PAC.

   The Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition

     Creeks and Watershed Conference

  8:30 -   9:30

Poster exhibits, light refreshments and social time.

  9:30 - 10:30

Introductory address by SCCCC

10:30 - 11:20

Historical Overview of Santa Clara County Streams Presented by Robin Grossinger of SFEI

11:20 - 12:00

Short creek film and a takeaway   message

12:00 -  1:00

 Lunch

  1:00 -   1:30

Citizen Water Quality Monitoring by the Clean Water Team

  1:30 -   2:10

Restoring Urban Rivers by Jim Fiedler of SCVWD

  2:10 -   3:30

Watershed Council and Creek Group experiences with Q&A

 3:30

Conference ends