ECWA
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
  • Our Watershed
    • What is a Watershed?
    • History of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed
    • Plants & Animals
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    • Ellerbe & Me
    • Blog
  • Our Preserves
    • Overview
    • 17-Acre Wood
    • The Rocks
    • Pearl Mill
    • Glennstone
    • Beaver Marsh
  • Our Work
    • Overview
    • Protect
    • Restore
    • Engage
    • Advocate
  • About Us
    • Our People
    • Careers
    • Our Supporters
    • History of ECWA
    • Guiding Documents
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Widening the Water Movement

​ECWA is working toward a vision of a protected corridor from downtown Durham to Falls Lake.
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association is working to widen the water movement in Durham and beyond.
 
In its healthiest places, the banks of Ellerbe Creek teem with creeping phlox, wild ginger, and Jack-in-the-pulpit, the water flowing through groves of red buckeye, river birch, and black gum. In its most polluted places, the banks of the creek are crowded with invasive privet and lesser celandine, its twists and turns choked with plastic bags, styrofoam cups, and other trash.
 
Due to Durham’s industrial past, it has been many years since each mile of this creek was healthy and thriving, when children could swim and play on its banks, or catch fish in its deeper pools. Today, many parts of the creek are simply uninhabitable for wildlife and too polluted for children to safely play.
 
But our watershed, which has been on the list of North Carolina’s most polluted water bodies since 1998, remains a vital source of clean drinking water for more than half a million people. That’s why we’ve been working since 1999 to protect and restore the land within our watershed. We are engaging the neighborhoods around Durham’s creeks to join us in advocating for our community’s most vital natural resource: our water.
 
Today, we envision a protected corridor from downtown Durham to Falls Lake. Join us in making this vision a reality.

Protect

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​ECWA protects the land that protects clean water.
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Restore

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​ECWA restores watershed function.
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Engage

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ECWA engages Durham residents in our neighborhood watershed and creek.
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Advocate

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ECWA encourages policymakers and other decisionmakers to take action to protect and restore the watershed.
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ECWA​
Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association

Mail: PO Box 2679
Durham, NC 27715
Office: 2600 W. Carver St., Suite C 
Durham, NC 27705
919.698.9729
info@ellerbecreek.org
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​OUR WATERSHED

What Is a Watershed?
History of the Watershed
Plants & Animals
Stories from the Watershed
Ellerbe & Me




​OUR PRESERVES

Overview
Glennstone
Beaver Marsh
Pearl Mill
The Rocks
17-Acre Wood
Non-Public Preserves
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​OUR WORK

Overview
Protect
Restore

Engage
Advocate


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​ABOUT US

Our People

Our Supporters
History of ECWA
Guiding Documents
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​GET INVOLVED

Donate
Volunteer
Visit a Preserve
Creek Smart
Attend an Event
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  • Our Watershed
    • What is a Watershed?
    • History of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed
    • Plants & Animals
    • Stories from the Watershed
    • Ellerbe & Me
    • Blog
  • Our Preserves
    • Overview
    • 17-Acre Wood
    • The Rocks
    • Pearl Mill
    • Glennstone
    • Beaver Marsh
  • Our Work
    • Overview
    • Protect
    • Restore
    • Engage
    • Advocate
  • About Us
    • Our People
    • Careers
    • Our Supporters
    • History of ECWA
    • Guiding Documents
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer
    • Stewardship
    • Visit a Preserve
    • Make Your Property Creek Smart
    • Attend An Event
  • Donate