The Cooper Creek Demonstration Watershed is a ~1-square mile area, that is drained by a “headwater” of Cooper Creek. In this small watershed, a collaborative effort is underway to answer important questions about how we can most effectively mitigate the impacts of urban hydrologic alteration (and climate change), and the many human and ecological problems that stem from it.
The Cooper Creek Collaborative (CCC) consists of multiple organizations that have come together around the goal of gaining important insights from sustained and methodical effort to implement, and monitor the individual and cumulative performance of, cutting-edge solutions designed to address the impacts of the most foundational, and destructive, component of urban stream syndrome, hydrologic alteration.
*The Center for Environmental Solutions & Emergency Response of the United State Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Homeland Security & Materials Management Division is participating in a collaborative effort to integrate and retrofit urban stormwater infrastructure networks with technology to improve water quality and moderate flows.
