Chagrin River Watershed Partners

Crwp is a collaboration of 36 cities, villages, townships, counties, and park districts working on innovative solutions to flooding, erosion, and water quality problems to minimize the impacts of development and limit local infrastructure costs. Crwp's founding principles are: - natural systems provide flood control, erosion control, and water quality - it is more cost effective for local governments to take planning and development steps to maintain these services than to pay for costly, and generally, less effective, remedial solutions. Crwp responds directly to the needs of member communities, elected officials, engineers, planners, law directors, and other professional advisors by helping them update comprehensive plans, zoning regulations, and other programs guiding land use. Crwp has assisted communities by introducing innovative practices that maintain natural resource functions and prevent or minimize flooding, erosion, and water quality problems. These practices include crwp's recommended Watershed management tools for planning, riparian and wetland setbacks, conservation development, improved erosion and sediment control, and comprehensive storm water management. In 2022, Chagrin River Watershed Partners worked with its members and Partners to leverage funding to implement projects for healthy streams, wetlands, natural areas and lake erie. Our 2022 accomplishments include: protected and/or restored 12,896 linear feet of streams and 81 acres of stream corridor and wetlands. Planted 5,560 trees. Prevented 120 million gallons of polluted runoff from reaching streams. Leveraged over 6.5million to steward streams and lake erie. Engaged over 5,000 people to achieve healthy watersheds. Provided technical recommendations to communities on 14 site development plans to help minimize impacts to stream and wetlands and control stormwater. Continued implementing the central lake erie basin collaborative strategic plan that outlines protection and restoration goals and desired long-term outcomes to achieve healthy watersheds. Communities, and lake erie. Implemented a master rain gardener program and taught 158 residents and landscape professionals how to design and build functional rain gardens. The 18 rain gardens installed through this program in 2022 prevent 187,886 gallons of stormwater runoff annually. Partnered with the northeast Ohio regional sewer district, hyfi and others to maintain a network of sensor-driven water level monitoring devices along streams, lakes, ponds and stormwater basins. The data collected by the sensor will help stormwater managers and emergency responders to stay up to date on the latest stream flow and level conditions.