River des Peres Community Planning Forum - 4/29

The River des Peres Watershed Coalition will be holding its third Community Planning Forum at the Heman Park Community Center on Tuesday, April 29th. Doors will open at 6:00 pm (refreshments provided) and the meeting will begin promptly at 6:30.

At our first meeting, we listed the 'critical issues' for the River des Peres. We had quite a long and detailed list, but we summarized it to: education, hydrology (flow), water quality, habitat quality, aesthetics, and policy.

At our second meeting, we began a list of the many ways we could work to address these critical issues. We again developed a long list, much of it focusing on education - the current list can be found at: http://www.thegreencenter.org/rdp/minutes_agenda/3-25-08-Summary.pdf

The April 29th meeting will be very important - if you are interested in improving the River des Peres, Deer Creek, Gravois Creek, or any of their tributaries, you don't want to miss this meeting! We will add to the list of actions we can take and then we will vote on which one(s) should be our highest priority. Everyone gets a vote, even if this is your first time working with the group. We are deciding the direction for the Coalition and we want as many people there as possible.

If you have questions or suggestions of actions we should add to the list, please email riverdesperes@gmail.com.