Get Involved

Stay Connected to Water

Join one of our focus area watershed stakeholder groups! We meet once or twice a year to update the group on happenings in the watershed. Meetings are an opportunity to work through new ideas to improve water quality and raise awareness across the watershed and surrounding areas. If you have watershed updates you want to share at our next meeting or just want to participate and learn more, please feel free to email our Watershed Coordinator, Lindsie Nicholas, anytime at lindsie@bggreensource.org. Click the watershed logos below for more information on each of our stakeholder groups.

Become a Watershed Hero

Are you passionate about protecting your local waterway? Participate in our Watershed Heroes Program and share your love for local waterways. Help us compile photos and projects from around Central KY highlighting our amazing water resources. Add photos of you or your group in action keeping your watershed clean, enjoying the water, or any interesting plants or animals you found along your local stream.

Here is how to participate and become a Watershed Hero:

Click here or scan the QR code to add to our Watershed Hero Map. Fill out the GIS Form with your name, the name of the waterway, and what interesting observation, action, or project you are showcasing. Be sure to attach pictures!
If possible, include ways you or your community could improve or become more engaged in your watershed.
Submit your entry and it will appear on our Watershed Hero Map featured below.
Your photos may be featured on our social media pages and website showcasing the good work our communities are doing to promote better water quality!
Email Lindsie@bgGreensource.org with the subject line reading: "Watershed Hero" with any questions regarding this program.

Explore the Watershed Hero Map Below!

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Become a Watershed Watch Sampler:

Watershed Watch is a statewide citizens monitoring effort to improve and protect water quality by raising community awareness, and by supporting implementation of the goals of the Clean Water Act and other water quality initiatives.

Explore the Kentucky Watershed Watch Data Portal below and view data collected by Watershed Watch volunteers in your area!

Interested in becoming a sampler? Let us know! It's a simple and fun way to get involved in your watershed and help collect data to inform future projects and focused studies.

Other ways to get involved:

Connecting Community and Water in your Neighborhood...

Partner with UK Cooperative Extension and form a 4-H Stream Team in your community
Join your local watershed group, such as CREEC, FOSC, or one of our Stakeholder Groups
Join Bluegrass Greensource's Water Quality Action Team
Plan a community stream clean-up
Organize a storm drain stenciling in your neighborhood
Plant a rain garden or a riparian (streamside) buffer
Tune in to KYH2O Podcast

This work was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under §319(h) of the Clean Water Act.

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