Zone 7 Kicks Off the Living Arroyos Program

Living Arroyos was initiated in July 2013 as a partnership of the City of Livermore, Urban Creeks Council, and Zone 7 Water Agency. The goal of the partnership is to restore and enhance urban stream and riparian (streamside) habitats while continuing to protect drinking water supplies and maintaining current levels of flood protection. And since people, especially children, need contact with nature in order to be happy and healthy, Living Arroyos seeks to re-integrate the region’s streams and its human communities so that residents of the rapidly urbanizing Tri-Valley area can have opportunities to experience real, functioning nature near at hand.

Join us for our program kickoff planting party and BBQ. Volunteers will be planting acorns along Arroyo Mocho in Livermore. Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 9am-12pm. There will be a free BBQ lunch for registered volunteers. To register or find out more about the program, please visit http://livingarroyos.org/.

Urban Creeks Council serves as the managing partner of the program. Community members and Apprentices are the backbone of the labor force that carries out the work of restoration and ongoing habitat management. Program activities will focus on the more than 45 miles of streams controlled by Zone 7 and the City of Livermore as seen in the map below.