Clear Fork Watershed CouncilJanuary 27, 2011

Clear Fork Watershed Council’s

“State of the Watershed 2011”

Water Status is Good

Cabin Hollow Creek Capuchin Creek Clear Fork Davis Creek Gum Fork Hickory Creek Jellico Creek Laurel Fork Lick Fork Little Elk Creek

Little Tackett Creek Little Yellow Creek Louse Creek No Business Branch Stinking Creek Tackett Creek Terry Creek Valley Creek

Water Status is Impaired

Elk Fork White Oak Creek

Origins of the Jellico Project 2006-2007

The Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team

Southern Team 2008-2010

Build capacity to enable the long-term stability and success of issue related

projects.

Core Goal One:

• Outreach

• Press Releases

• Grant Writing

• Board Organization

Assist sponsor organization in conducting the watershed research and water quality monitoring critical to future funding.

Core Goal Two:

Enhance community awareness and involvement through community education

and outreach.

Core Goal Three:

• Coordinating workshops with schools and youth groups•Creating publications to inform public of watershed issues• Tabling at community events and festivals

Support the efforts of community revitalization through economic development

projects and celebrate and increase the awareness and understanding of local history

and culture.

Core Goal Four:

Community Trails

Initiative&

BrownfieldsProject

Provide Professional Development for Volunteers

Core Goal Five:

• Networking

• Presentations

• Professional & Technical Writing

• Other Skill Building

CFWC Accomplishments in 2011

• Watershed planning process initiated.

• Recruited over 30 volunteers.• Leveraged a total of over 3,000

hours of service from community volunteers!

• Secured $30,000 in in-kind donations, and $4,500 in grants and monetary donations.

Projects in 2011

Water Forum-Brazil Water Resources Management, Development and

Participation Network Brownfield Assessment Project Community Trails Initiative Clear Fork Meth Project Expeditions Watershed planning/ water quality monitoring Baseline Initiative The Big Dip 2011

Rio Doce Water Forum--Brazil

What Is Asset Based Community Development?

It is an approach to community-based development, based on the principles of:

Appreciating and mobilizing individual and community talents, skills and assets (rather than

focusing on problems and needs)

Community-driven development rather than development driven by external agencies

Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team (ACCWT)

It builds on: Appreciative inquiry which identifies and analyses the

community's past successes. This strengthens people's confidence in their own capacities and inspires them to take action

The recognition of social capital and its importance as an asset. This is why ABCD focuses on the power of associations and informal linkages within the community, and the relationships built over time between community associations and external institutions

Participatory approaches to development, which are based on principles of empowerment and ownership of the development process

Community economic development models that place priority on collaborative efforts for economic development that makes best use of its own resource base

Efforts to strengthen civil society.

Workshop Discussion

1. What are your concerns about the state of the Clear Fork watershed?

2. What all should be involved in planning

expeditions for 2011?

3. What month/week is best for Meth Awareness/Prevention campaign?