Shower Our Watershed With Love
Tualatin River Native Plants Stewardship Water Resources
There are plenty of ways you can show your love for the river, to help keep this symbiotic relationship healthy and strong.
Leave it to Beavers
There’s a lot we already know about nature’s engineers. Beavers have iron-enriched teeth, which is what makes them strong enough to gnaw wood (and gives them an orange color). Beavers also have a unique way of communicating — by slapping their tails to draw attention to something or even warn of potential danger.
Rain to Drain to River
Your actions, no matter how small, can impact the life cycle of the salmon, and the overall health of the watershed.
‘Wastewater Olympics’ Boosts Essential Services Skills
It’s been called the Wastewater Olympics, the Sewage Superbowl, and one of the best professional development programs in the water sector. The Operations Challenge exists because wrangling wastewater to protect our communities and environment requires well-trained professionals who can put their skills to work quickly, safely, and collaboratively.
Diving into a New Water Year
While a calendar year ends a couple of months into the wet season, a water year follows the flow of the season.
Who’s Been Here? Using eDNA to Understand and Defend our Watershed
There are many different ways the watershed talks to us, if you know how to listen. At Clean Water Services (CWS), we are always working to understand the needs of the Tualatin River Watershed. One way we learn from the environment is asking “who or what has been here?” Since we can’t knock on the door of a beaver dam or ring a trout’s doorbell, CWS is using a new technique to translate the language of the watershed.
Critical Infrastructure Meets the Natural Landscape
When you kayak along the river or take a stroll through your neighborhood park, you may not realize the critical infrastructure just below the surface, hiding underground and carrying wastewater to a treatment facility or stormwater to a nearby waterway.
