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Parkerson Mill Creek
is a highly degraded urban stream that flows through the campus
of Auburn University. The stream system is in poor health
with degraded water quality and unstable streambanks.
The AU Sustainability
Initiative, IMPACT,
the Alabama
Cooperative Extension System, and AU Facilities are cooperating
on an ongoing project to dramatically improve the condition
of Parkerson Mill Creek through large scale natural channel
design restoration.
In this first stage of the project, IMPACT students work
weekly with a graduate student funded through the Alabama
Cooperative Extension System State Water Program (ACES) to
remove trash from the stream and eradicate invasive, exotic
vegetation from along the streambanks.
For a more thorough description of the problems and the project,
please see the
official Parkerson Mill Creek Restoration project page.
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IMPACT volunteer next to an area
along the western bank that is choked with invasive privet and
kudzu, and will be opened up for native vegetation. |
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IMPACT volunteer removing privet
that has been cut out of the area. Work from this day removed
enough invasive plants to fill a dump truck. |
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Graduate student leader manually
removing dead kudzu from the western bank of the creek. |
