Cumberland River Compact News Room:
Dragon Boat 2009
To view race results, photos, and videos, visit the Dragon Boat website here.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Water Quality Scorecard
Incorporating Green Infrastructure Practices at Municipal, Neighborhood, and Site Scales
The Water Quality Scorecard can be used by local officials, government staff, and development professionals to determine whether or not a community allows for the oppourtunity of green infrastructure and indentifies areas they can enhance or development green infrastructure language in their codes and ordinances.
Read the Water Quality Scorecard here.
Read about Compact Board Member, Skip Lawrence, who is a finalist
for the prestigious Mary Catherine Strobel Award, here.
Read about the Compact's Project Blue Streams Director, Mekayle
Houghton, and upcoming rain barrel workshops here.
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Cleaning up 900 feet of a small creek serves as a dramatic example of how to reduce sediment and runoff.
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March 19, 2009- Annual Meeting
This year’s Annual Meeting was hosted by Lipscomb University’s Institute for Sustainable Practices. An insightful presentation was given by Dr. James Fraser, Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College, discussing his current work with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, as well as a proposed lawn and water quality project in neighborhoods in west Nashville.
The Cumberland River Compact is pleased to announce the 2009 Tributarian Award Winners and celebrate their dedication to the Cumberland River and her tributaries!
Board Member of the Decade: Shirley Caldwell-Patterson
Volunteer of the Year: Jay Long
Business of the Year: Marcus Kerske, Gardens of Babylon
Andy Lipkis: Rebel with a cause
Watch the amazing video here:
Smart Green Infrastructure: How to Grow Sustainable Cities
Building Outside the Box made the news!
Read the article in Progressive
Farmer here.
Look for a second article covering stream restoration at Campbell Farm in
the March '09 Progressive Farmer.
Click here to read the Fall 2008 Mainstem Report.
Meet the Compact's Harpeth Hall Winterim, Sara Schott!
To read what she is up to at the Compact, click here.
2007-2008 Annual Report
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11.12.08 Project Blue
Streams helping Nashville's Green
Infrastructure:
Read the Tennessean article
here
Read the Morgan Park Place Economic Analysis Report here.
Congratulations to the 2008 Champions
Nashville Outlaws Rugby Club
Visit www.nashvilledragonboat.com
for amazing pictures and video.
Thank you to all the 2008 Paddlers!
See you next year - Roar!!
Officials jump in to show progress, support for river
While Cumberland River is better, agency says area has work to do
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Percy Priest Clean Up
May 3, 2008 A massive volunteer effort to rid Percy Priest Lake of shoreline and island trash. With almost 600 volunteers registered, and more than 1,800 work-hours contributed free of charge, the Nashville Clean Water Project was by far the largest water cleanup in Nashville history.
Season after season, trash accumulates at trouble spots on the lake's 24 camping islands and 213 shoreline miles- so much trash that organizers have determined additional efforts are necessary. The first Nashville Clean Water Project was supported by Waste Management, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Team Green Outdoor Club, thinkMEDIA, the Cumberland River Compact, Elm Hill Marina and Bridgestone Americas, among others. More information can be found at www.CleanPercyPriest.org
For up to date information on the condition of Percy Priest Lake, visit: http://fox17.com/newsroom/top_stories/vid_3778.shtml
More Media:
Nashville City Paper Article
Tennessean-Image Gallery
On April 25th the River was rocked! A big thank you to: Bridgestone and Lightning 100, Ricky Young and Scott Miller and the Commonwealth!
Earth Day 2008 at Centennial Park with our friends, Coke and the World Wildlife Fund
"Water, Energy & Climate Change"
By Don Elder
Click here for the PowerPoint presentation.
Special Thanks to the World Wildlife Fund’s Southeast Rivers and Streams Program
Google News Alert for: cumberland river compact
Tenn. taps into better water resources
The Daily Beacon - Knoxville,TN,USA
The UT Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment partners with the Cumberland River Compact and the Environmental Protection Agency to create ...Read more
The adoption of Franklin Branch Creek by the Compact through
Metro Water's Adopt-A-Stream Program.
2008 Board Retreat at Shelby Bottoms Nature Center
Local Officials Curriculum (LOC) Program Receives Award
October, 2007: The Greater Nashville Regional Council awarded the cooperative efforts of the Compact's LOC Program, Wilson County and the cities of Lebanon and Mt. Juliet, with an honor in the Stormwater Category. The managers in these watersheds elected to work together, along with the LOC Program, to not only meet federal and state regulations for stormwater and water quality, but also to bring new and innovative methods of addressing water resource issues in their communities.
Vena Jones, LOC Program Director was excited about the award, saying: "Together the LOC and the Wilson County Stormwater cooperative has accomplished many things and has worked soley as an intergovernmental cooperative to further the number of best management practices. The cooperative has been instrumental in encouraging over a dozen businesses to utilize rain gardens, bio-swales and /or pervious paving throughout Wilson County and the Old Hickory Watershed."
7 Mile Creek Clean-Up hosted by Team Green
and Cumberland River Compact
Photos here...
CRC Founder Receives Presidential Award
A longtime Nashville environmentalist and founder of the Cumberland River Compact, Shirley Caldwell-Patterson, was honored last Friday with the President's Volunteer Service Award, the highest volunteer award given by the U.S. president.
 The award was presented by Stephen L. Johnson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for Caldwell-Patterson's role as a conservationist and advocate of clean water in Tennessee.
A longtime Nashville environmentalist and founder of the Cumberland River Compact, Shirley Caldwell-Patterson, was honored last Friday with the President's Volunteer Service Award, the highest volunteer award given by the U.S. president.
The award will be presented by Stephen L. Johnson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for Caldwell-Patterson's role as a conservationist and advocate of clean water in Tennessee.
EPA Administrator Johnson Presented Cumberland River Compact with Green Building Grant
On Friday, August 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson presented the Cumberland River Compact's Building Outside the Box program with a Regional Environmental Priorities (REP) grant to advance sustainable building and protect water quality in Tennessee. REP grants support new approaches to environmental priorities and test unproven technologies or models that can be used in other communities and sectors. The announcement took place at Morgan Park Place, a green residential building on 4th Avenue North.
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