A healthy community starts with a healthy watershed. We all depend on our watersheds for clean drinking water, productive farms, thriving aquatic life, and safe places to swim, fish, and paddle. We need to keep our waterways clean for our community – and the communities who live downstream from us. The creeks in our community also depend on us to protect them and keep them clean. South Boulder Creek runs through open space, agricultural land, and neighborhoods.
How the communities upstream from you treat the water around them will impact your water use, and how you treat your water will impact the communities downstream from you. Trash and polluted stormwater runoff from your neighborhood will end up in the stream people downstream from you use to fish and swim.
The Boulder St. Vrain watershed covers most of Boulder County, several towns in Weld County, and small portions of a few other counties. Since water doesn’t flow according to political boundaries, it’s important for all of us to work together to protect our watershed. From here, South Boulder Creek flows north: into Leggett Reservoir, where people can fish and paddleboard, and through KOA Lake, where people can catch and release fish.
As you walk south on the trail notice all the ways you can help protect this area: