Join us for the Annual General Meeting on Thursday, November 17th as we celebrate the success of 2016. The event will be held in the Hankison Great Room at the W.W. Knight Nature Preserve in Perrysburg, and will go from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Following dinner, there will be a presentation highlighting the work done this […]
One of our main goals at PCS is to remove trash from local streams and rivers. Even though volunteers remove tons of trash every year during Clean Your Streams, trash accumulates quickly in our waterways. Unfortunately, this reoccurring problem is more widespread than Toledo. Marine debris, or trash in waterways, is an issue around the […]
Congratulations to the Challenge Winners for the 20th Annual Clean Your Streams Day! These self-reported challenges encourage friendly competition between volunteer groups while inspiring them to have the largest positive impact possible on our streams. This year, the Challenges were a little different than in years past. We awarded winners for both youth and collegiate […]
In the week leading up to Clean Your Streams, the weather forecast was less than ideal. But the rain didn’t stop our volunteers from cleaning! Thanks to all 960 of them, we have now completed 20 years of Clean Your Streams! The PCS staff and CYS planning team are incredibly happy with the results of […]
Photo: NOAANew to our website is a page dedicated to marine debris awareness and prevention! You can find this new information on our Clean Your Streams page, under Marine Debris 101. Here you will learn what marine debris is, where it comes from, what PCS is doing about it, and how you can help. There […]
The 2015 Annual Report is available to view and download on our website! This Report recognizes all that you, our Partners, helped us do in 2015 and it celebrates our successes. We have hard copies available by request or with us during our events. But until you can get your hands on a hard copy, […]
Drumroll please…Partners for Clean Streams was awarded $2,465 in grant funding for our Clean Your Streams and CYS 365 programs through the PIG Difference Grant Challenge! We came in a really close second place, with 49.3% of the votes. Thank you to everyone who voted everyday and on multiple devices! Your votes contributed to us […]
Social media is a tool we can use to share what we think is important with other people. Well, PCS believes that Clean Your Streams is most certainly worthy of being posted to social media! We invite you to share your Clean Your Streams experience with us this year by posting to our Facebook, Twitter, […]
Last year’s Clean Your Streams Day included 971 volunteers who collected 13,528 pounds of trash over 33.9 miles of river bank. During the cleanup, volunteers diligently tracked the types of trash that they collected. With this information Partners for Clean Streams is better able to educate people and focus future cleanup efforts. The top ten […]