Friends of Big Creek

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Watershed(s) of Focus: Big Creek

Counties in Coverage Area: Cuyahoga
Contact Name: Bob Gardin
Job Title: Chairman
Address:

P.O. Box 609272
Cleveland, OH 44109

Friends of Big Creek was formed in 2005 as a community-based greenway advocacy and watershed stewardship group. Its mission is to conserve, enhance and bring recognition to the natural and historic resources of the Big Creek watershed and develop a recreational trail network that joins these resources to each other and to the community.

Big Creek is the third largest tributary of twelve, of the lower Cuyahoga River. The Big Creek watershed drains nearly 40 square miles as it traverses 12 miles through 7 municipalities; Cleveland, Brooklyn, Lynndale, Parma, Parma Heights, Brook Park, and North Royalton. In 2006, Friends of Big Creek gained funding commitments from the watershed communities leveraging an Ohio Coastal Management Assistance grant to enable the Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan to undertake the first phase of a comprehensive watershed management plan. In August of 2007 Friends of Big Creek, Cleveland Metroparks and the cities of Cleveland and Parma, as partners with the City of Brooklyn, were awarded federal funding for a trail alignment study that will examine opportunities for ecological restoration along 3 miles of Big Creek. FOBC is engaged in numerous educational and outreach efforts through public meetings, hikes, a quarterly newsletter, and a current website.

Listing Updated: 2008-02-27