Sacramento Area Creeks Council

Founded in 2009, the Sacramento Area Creeks Council ("Creeks Council") preserves, restores and maintains the natural streams in our urban communities through advocacy, financial support and technical expertise. The Creeks Council’s goal is to educate the general public on the aesthetic, recreational, and ecological value of Sacramento’s urban creeks.

 The Creeks Council achieves this through a variety of ways, including:

•  Providing financial, material, and promotional support for creek, open-space and neighborhood cleanup events. 

• Distributing educational materials and classroom curriculum that encourage the teaching of science concepts centered around conservation of natural resources.
• Participating in local neighborhood events with educational booths and activities for all ages.
• Advocating for local ordinances and land use planning processes that promote creek and river preservation, sound flood control project design, habitat restoration, and effective stream bank stabilization methods. 
• Supporting on-going volunteer water quality monitoring efforts.

 The ecological health of Sacramento’s waterways has greatly deteriorated over the last few years due to excessive accumulation of trash and inorganic debris that damage creek channels, banks, and riparian habitat.  To address this, the Creeks Council is focusing its efforts on supporting local groups that implement creek restoration efforts throughout the year.  

 As part of this expanded focus, the Sacramento Area Creeks Council serves as the nonprofit fiscal sponsor of two local volunteer groups that emerged in the last couple of years in response to the ecological crisis facing our waterways : River City Waterway Alliance and Elk Grove Anti-Trash Volunteers.  These two volunteer groups have removed over 2 million pounds of debris from our local waterways.

 Creeks Council also sponsors a project called the “Arcade Creek Adopt A Creek Project,” which is a pilot project of the Creeks Council’s “Know Your Creek” effort.  More information about all of these programs can be found on our website: www.saccreeks.org