We officially launched operations starting with a modest table along the Los Gatos Creek trail in Campbell which led to our first cleanup in May.
We rebranded our group as “South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition”, a more inclusive name.
Our cleanups started to include multiple locations along both the Los Gatos Creek and the Guadalupe River.
We acquired the group “Friends of Coyote Creek Watershed” and expanded to include the Coyote Creek.
Our artistic efforts became more ambitious. We reached out to local artists to create murals, art contests, videos, and trash art.
Due to Covid our operations changed to meet the county requirements for the COVID protocol. We continued to clean up the waterways as they became even more heavily impacted by the unhoused.
We picked up our millionth pound of trash with over 327 cleanups.
Our 2019 samples from our Salmon Monitoring efforts came back showing results of 2 fish possibly being native strains from the local watershed.
Best Year for salmon monitoring. We saw over a hundred fish in the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos Creek. It is estimated that there were over 500- 700 fish in the waterways of San Jose.
We received the Community Heroes Award from Mayor Matt Mahan’s office and have begun the process to increase communication between local environmental groups and agencies through creek partners meetings.
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