Creating Urban Riparian Buffers

m banks, and providing shade which decrease the temperature in the stream. For more information, please view our brochure. (http://www.tristatesteelheaders.com/images/Restoration/CURB/CURB_brochure_Current.pdf)

The CURB program was started in 2007 because of the need to improve water quality on the creeks that run through Walla Walla and College Place. Many of these creeks are contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria, chlorinated pesticides and PCBs, and do not meet temperature, dissolved oxygen, and pH standards. The buffers are designed to mitigate some of these concerns. Additional information is available through the Department of Ecology’s Water Quality Implementation Plan. (https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/publications/0810094.pdf) The program is funded by a grant through the Department of Ecology’s Water Quality Division. CURB is a collaborative effort of Tri-State Steelheaders, Kooskooskie Commons, Walla Walla County Conservation District, participating landowners, and hundreds of community volunteers.