Past Projects
- Rain Garden at St. Ambrose Church
- WCWCP installed a rain garden at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, funded by an American Rivers grant and City of Raleigh Rainwater Rewards. Watch three videos about the rain garden at the City’s site here.
- Graduate Student Research
- Dresden McGregor,an NCSU graduate student, worked in the community to learn more about residents’ views, flooding, and green infrastructure opportunities. These are projects that use nature to provide community and environmental benefits. A peer-reviewed journal article published the results of this study. To read the paper and for more information, email Louie Rivers.
- Hydrologic Monitoring in Rochester Heights Creek and Little Rock Creek
- Theo Jass and Ryan Emanuel, NCSU CNR, used American Rivers funding to see how high Little Rock Creek and Rochester Heights’ creeks get after rain events.
- Krissy Hopkins with USGS analyzed the data and created the graphs found below.
Image: Local community and WCWCP partners installing the rain garden at St. Ambrose Church
This graph shows the range of responses in the stream for different sized rainfall events. The value above the box plot is the mean water lever rise (the grey circles) of all the events in that rainfall category.
This graph shows how quickly the creek can rise and fall during a rainfall event. During this rainfall, the stream rose 1.3 feet in 15 minutes during a 1.27 inch rainfall that lasted 45 minutes (average of 1.7 inches/hour). This graph shows that the greater the rainfall intensity, the greater the rise in the stream.
Information Resources
Read information on related projects and activities
- Walnut Creek watershed map
- NCSU CNR’s Spring 2019 Natural Resources Measurements class Final Report includes results of their studies of Walnut Creek Wetland Park resources
- The Center for Human and Earth Restoration received the 2016 John Chavis Community Legacy Award for the Neighborhood Ecology Corps program.
- City of Raleigh’s Walkable Watershed Plan focuses on ways to improve pedestrian safety and connectivity while reducing flooding and helping local waterways.
- Walnut Creek Wetland Education site by Exploris Middle School (2009)
- NCSU Natural Learning Initiative Walnut Creek Wetland Center planning (2002)
Archive Group Documents
- Winter Newsletter 2020
- Fall Newsletter 2020
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 14(12/02/19) summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 13 (10/07/19) summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 12 (8/19/19) summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 11 (6/3/19)
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 10 (5/19) summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 9 (3/25/19) summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 8 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 7 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 6 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 5 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 4 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 3 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 2 summary
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Mtg 1 summary
- Parks with Purpose Fact Sheet
- Parks with Purpose Task Force Charter
- Fall 2017 Meeting Summary
- Summer 2017 Newsletter
- July 2016 Meeting Summary
- Dec 2015 Meeting Summary
- Sep 2015 Meeting Summary
- April 2015 Retreat outcomes
- NCSU Research Forum Presentation Sept 2014
- June 2014 Meeting Summary