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Our Projects:
New T-Shirts for IEWK!
Custom-designed and screen-printed by students of Canyon Springs High School's Academy of Creative Technologies, our t-shirts are super cool! To get into your very own shirt, become an IEWK member with a tax-deductible donation of $10 or more!
Corporate Sponsors/
Private Donations
Money is tight for fledgling non-profits! We are looking for generous corporate sponsors and private donations to fund our crucial mission. Donations can be made on our website and you will be given a receipt for your tax-deductible gift. Corporate sponsors will be recognized our web page and through printed materials. |
| Join Advisory Board! |
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Interested in becoming an advisor for the projects and efforts of IEWK?
We are currently developing our Board of Advisors, and only with the involvement of local professionals and interested individuals will we succeed.
Please contact Waterkeeper,
Lee Reeder at (951) 689-6842.
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| Tips Needed! |
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If you see polluted runoff exiting a construction site, an industrial or commercial facility this winter, please send us a tip at (951)
689-6842
or info@iewaterkeeper.org! Pictures and/or exact addresses are appreciated. The key is identifying where the runoff from the site enters a stormdrain and thus our waterways. Nothing except "Rain in the Drain" is allowed! | |
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Please enjoy our November e-newsletter and have a great Thanksgiving! Inland Empire Waterkeeper (IEWK) is a grassroots nonprofit water quality organization dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Upper Santa Ana River Watershed through advocacy, education, restoration and enforcement. We look forward to working with concerned citizens like you to fulfill our mission. |
| Mill Creek Clean-Up 2008 - Looking for Sponsors |
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 Mill Creek in Mentone needs some cleaning up! The amount of trash there is atrocious - we're looking for local agency sponsors, or other charitable groups, to help provide trash bags, dump trucks, gloves, water, etc., If you're an agency in the San Bernardino or Redlands area, please give us a call, we won't be able to do it without you!
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| Education Program: River KATS - sold out! |
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River KATS: Kid Activism Together with Science.
[Corona, Norco, Ramona, Val Verde, Summit, Rubidoux and Patriot High School].
Due to the overwhelming response, we're in need of more donations - there is HUGE demand for our field trips. We've had to turn several deserving teachers away!
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| Volunteer to Make a Difference! |
 Join us and many other volunteers for an Arlington Falls TRASH CLEANUP on Saturday, January 26 from 8:00 am to Noon. This is a casual, grassroots event so we ask you keep the kids (under 10) at home, and bring your own trash bags and gloves. Trails are sometimes slippery so wear good shoes & long pants/shirt (poison oak and stinging nettles are present). Pass the word to fellow enviro's! If you can make it, drop a line to Info@iewaterkeeper.org. This is a wild and beautiful canyon with an incredible waterfall that has been littered with trash for a very long time. It conveys a surprisingly large volume of spring water to the Santa Ana River, and contains endangered species habitat so please, no dogs.
Meet at our office at 8:00 am, (3741 Merced Dr., #F2, Riverside) and we'll caravan to the site where there is ample street parking. CANCELLED IN EVENT OF RAIN. |
| Forest Canyon Profile: Leach Canyon |
| Leach Canyon is a significant tributary to Lake Elsinore. We believe much of the flows we find there are spring-fed. Ancient oak trees abound, including a mix of ferns and native drought-tolerant species that thrive year-round. It is a beautiful canyon and certainly worthy of National Forest status. Thanks to Steve & Shelley who check on it each month.
Next Month: Lion Spring with volunteers Catrina and Edgar! |
| L.E.A.P.S Update |
The saga continues...
10/17: Nevada Hydro files application with California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for TE/VS interconnect.
10/17: CPUC claims Lead Agency title for CEQA documentation. Draft EIR expected Dec. 2008.
11/6: The Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted in favor, 5-0, of NOT splitting the project in two (i.e., LEAPS and TE/VS interconnect).
11/7: The California Energy Commission (CEC) approves their 5-year strategic plan for transmission lines, that lists TE/VS interconnect as priority project.
11/17: Official protests and motions to become "Party" to the CPUC application process for the transmission line start coming, from IEWK, So. Cal Edison, private persons and Div. of Ratepayers Advocates.
THANK YOU to the many volunteers who gathered 395 petition signatures, 120 signed opposition letters to the CEC, 46 to the U.S. Forest Service, 43 to FERC and 73 to the CPUC. We are transmitting them now.
[LEAPS is the Lake Elsinore Advanced Pump Storage project that is two-fold: hydroelectric dam above Lake Elsinore in the Cleveland National Forest and 30-mile interconnect transmission line through the National Forest.] Read more HERE, or www.stopleaps.info or www.evmwd.com or www.leapsforward.org. | |
