Project Clean Stream
On May 16, 2017, 14 students went to the Herring Run stream to look and evaluate water quality by looking for macro-invertebrates. Students also collected and sorted through 4 bags of trash and recyclable material taken from the bank of the stream. Irvine Nature Center engineered what was then known as the Jones Falls Clean-up. The Center encouraged neighbors and friends of the Jones Falls to protect the stream and help clean-up along area roads. What started as a grass roots effort grew so large that Irvine asked for the support of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. Now the project, known as Project Clean Stream, is coordinated by the Alliance and partnering watershed organizations. It is also a project done by schools like Sinclair Lane Elementary.