GOAL: To improve Lower Big Walnut Creek Watershed.
1. To preserve and protect Lower Big Walnut Creek,
its tributaries and watershed, from Hoover Dam as the northern
limit, to its termination at the confluence with the Scioto River to
the south, for the benefit of the people and wildlife that use them.
2. To publicize the benefits of Big Walnut Creek as
green space and a natural resource that is an ecosystem at risk
because of its urban environment.
3. To exercise legal means of preservation and
dedication of watershed areas through regulatory actions such as
conservation easements and facilitating donations of land.
4. To advocate for the protection and preservation
of natural ecosystems within Big Walnut Creek watershed, its banks,
its floodplain, its tributaries, and their ephemeral streams.
5. To promote restoration activities for damaged or
compromised areas of the Big Walnut Creek watershed.
6. To attain levels of aquatic life use graded as
Exceptional Warm Water Habitat (EWH)and to maintain that level.
7. To insure that any habitat alterations occurring
in the Watershed do not endanger the physical integrity of the
ecosystem.
8. To organize, expand, and educate local community
support for water quality enhancement.
9. To continue the pursuit of these goals into the foreseeable
future.